Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kellogg (or some other) Pact should agree to aid that nation if it be attacked. An agreement in this sense would be called by M. Laval "implementing the Peace Pact." He is said to have dropped the original French plea for armed aid to the nation attacked, now urges economic boycott of the aggressor...
...first tales were circulated that a merger of all the lines involved was planned, no such announcement was made. Shipping men believed that the U. S. Shipping Board had ordered the Dollar and Roosevelt interests to reach a quick agreement on their bidding for U. S. Lines, that a pact was being made which would provide for harmony in rates and sailings, end the discord between the shippers of the Atlantic and Pacific. Significant was the absence of Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines, apparently no longer a principal figure in the U. S. merchant marine...
...last week the question of the real existence of war, although undisputed in a general sense, has in a special instance become a subject of concern to the whole world. For unless Japan and China can be brought to admit that they are at war, the Kellogg pact cannot be invoked to force steps toward peace in the Far East...
...effective the Kellogg Pact would be in outlawing war has been to many an open question. And the present situation in Manchuria gives some support to the sceptics. It has thrown a searching light on a loophole which might allow evasion of the Pact. Signatories to the Pact are prevented from taking action if one of the nations in question denies the existence...
...United States and the other signatories of the Kellog-Briand Pact must bring pressure to bear on China and Japan immediately, or else the Kellog Pact will be disgraced and rendered worthless by the fighting that is going on between the two countries, both of which are signatories of the pact," declared Professor L. C. Porter of the Chinese Department, in an interview yesterday." The present activities in Manchuria are the first instances of two countries fighting that signed the pact...