Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the attitude of the United States toward any agreements arising out of the Far Eastern conflict, President Lowell declares in the leading article of the current number of Foreign Affairs that the interpretation placed upon the Pact of Paris by Secretary Stimson's note of January 7 to Japan, "If generally accepted, might make the relation of states more uncertain, more full of danger than if the Pact has been unsigned...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...Moscow last week the Government newsorgan Izvestia pointedly remarked that two months ago Russia sent a note proposing to Japan that the two nations sign a mutual pact of nonaggression. Up to last week Tokyo had not replied to Moscow's note. Added Izvestia...
...fortunate idealists who at length saw a concrete issue of their plans. The pact renouncing war as an instrument of policy was the joint creation of himself and Secretary Kellogg. It may be suggested that the realistic and even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply...
...other promises upon which they were really de-pendent." In these carefully guarded words lay Secretary Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping the capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam and the Philippines and putting an invincible fleet of battleships into the Pacific. How would Japan like that? Repeated in the Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that...