Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...envelope contained the first reply by any Power to the proposal for a multilateral pact "renouncing war" which U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has transmitted to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 23), in the form of a tentative treaty text. The note presented by Dr. Stresemann to Mr. Schurman declared unequivocally: ". . . The German Government ... is ready to conclude a pact in accordance with the proposal of the Government of the United States...
Following the Alexandria riots of 1921, when nearly a score of foreigners were killed, and sixty odd injured, England managed to patch up the affair in the 1922 Anglo-Egyptian pact, which terminated the British protectorate undertaken in 1914. From that time until the present, Egypt has been working for absolute independence. A sovereign state, Egypt wished the British restrictions removed, but Britain firmly insisted on her right to guard her communications of Empire and to protect foreigners...
Such a document is wholly grotesque, a Pact of Qualifications, not a Pact of Peace. Yet Aristide Briand has won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), and his policies are the epitome of pacifism. Only in unprecedented circumstances would he send forth such a monstrosity as the Treaty of last week...
...Such a pact would not have conflicted with the numerous European alliances and commitments of France. But Mr. Kellogg countered with a proposal to make the treaty a multi-power affair. By insisting upon that point he has gradually forced
...Briand to admit, in effect, that France is bound by commitment, which obligates her to go to war under certain circumstances. Therefore she cannot sign the simple, blanket Kellogg Peace Pact. Doubtless most other foreign Powers are similarly circumstanced, and possibly even the U. S. Congress would refuse to bind the U. S. by the Kellogg formula. But meanwhile the U. S. Republican Party should reap political profit by forcing from as many foreign states as possible the admission that they must refuse for the present to sign a treaty "renouncing...