Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Pact is based on the force of public opinion, which is great . . . but it cannot be looked upon as sufficient in its present state to guarantee the security of nations...
...British Government has stated that the Government of the United States and themselves based their conversations on the Paris Kellogg Pact...
...Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
...Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema...