Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eric Drummond put the furious Orientals for a time in separate rooms. In a third room (while European members of the Council sat in a fourth) was the U. S. "observer," Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson. Mr. Wilson disagreed with Dr. Sze that Japan had violated the Kellogg Pact. The Council agreed with Mr. Yoshizawa that the matter was one for direct negotiation between Japan and China. "Particularly." soothed Britain's Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, "as Mr. Yoshizawa assures us that Japan is now withdrawing her troops. . . . I hope that these troops will be withdrawn as rapidly...
...conduct of the Japanese soldiers is the more unpardonable, as Japan is a co-signatory of the Kellogg Anti-War Pact. The Pact provides in unmistakable terms: "The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means." The actions of the Japanese military officers, however, are in such flat contradiction with the terms of the Pact that they virtually put aside the solemn renunciation of war to facilitate their imperialistic aggrandizement...
...government of the United States in urging an immediate cessation of hostilities. Japan must either give up completely the places unlawfully occupied or become once and for all the enemy of the peace of mankind. The spirit of the League Covenant, the Washington Treaty, and the Kellogg Pact must not be suffered to die at the hands of Japanese aggression...
...Amendments to the covenant in order to bring it into harmony with the Kellogg Pact...
...King of England, driving in grand style, to the opening of Parliament, as a symbol of the English nation's sense of independence. It's not he. Then who is it? Is it a delegate of the nations who signed the Kellogg Pact in Paris, surrounded by 50 photographers, the proper inkwell could not be brought in because of its enormous size, they had to content themselves with a Sevres set? No, it's only- in comes slouching, gray woolen socks a-dangle-our Reinhold, that quite insignificant figure, a mouse-gray lad in mouse- gray...