Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there a joker? Statesmen nodded, but beamed nonetheless approvingly upon the crisp, new document. It does not except from arbitration nearly as many subjects as did the treaty which it replaces, the Franco-U. S. arbitration pact of 1908. Not to be arbitrated under the old treaty were matters involving "national honor," "vital interests," or "a third state"-that is to say the exceptions were so broad as practically to permit either state to refuse arbitration of any case which it did not want arbitrated. The new treaty text, temporarily withheld from publication last week, was announced to provide...
...pretty bit of ceremony to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the United States first treaty, or as a fitting, if anticlimactical, acknowledgement of Lindbergh's accomplishments in diplomacy, the peace pact signed simultaneously yesterday in Washington and Paris was most successful. As an effective measure to destroy any possibility of Franco-American hostilities, it may be said to order on the inane. For it, covers all bellicose situations except "as such disputes related to the Monroe Doctrine, France's obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party...
...peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other alliances, because it an aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does do, is to make nations liable merely on the grounds of political honor, an unsecured liability chosen instead...
Loomed before Ambassador Herrick, last week, the grave "differences" to which he referred: 1) The high French import duties upon U. S. goods have been lowered only provisionally and await final negotiations; 2) The Briand-Kellog conversations looking to a peace pact have virtually deadlocked although Mr. Herrick himself said, last week: "I am anxious to see negotiations for a lasting pact with France outlawing war completed as soon as possible"; 3) the Franco-U. S. debt funding agreement is still unratified by France, a fact which Mr. Herrick tactfully dismissed, in speaking to French correspondents. Said...
Statesman Claudel thus made clear that Ambassador Herrick would have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general...