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...nations signed the Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...
Died. Frank Billings Kellogg, 81, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1924), Secretary of State under President Coolidge, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; of pneumonia; in St. Paul, Minn...
Last spring amid the magnificence of the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office in London, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis achieved a signal triumph in international relations. He got 21 other nations to join with the U. S. in signing a pact controlling world sugar production for five years (TIME, May 10). Last week the U.S. Senate ratified the pact and simultaneously the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced 1938 quotas for U. S. sugar imports and production. U. S. sugarmen found the former event more pleasing than the latter...
There are two broad divisions of sugar consumption-the free world market and various domestic markets, such as that in the U. S., which are protected by import limitations. The International Sugar Pact limits only production for export, i.e. for sale in the world market. It sets this figure at 3,600,000 tons per year. But further voluntary limitation by certain exporting nations may cut it to about 3,400,000 in 1937-38 and 1938-39. This is slightly more than the present consumption of sugar in international trade, is therefore not very restrictionary. But it pleases sugar...
Resolution. Aim of the Neutrality Bill, enacted this year was to keep the U. S. out of situations leading to war by enabling the President to embargo U. S. shipments to belligerents. Since the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, no wars have been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...