Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proponents of the Kellogg Pact, what are the other nations to think of our continual preparation for war? Granting the necessity of a small standing army for the present. I deny the necessity of militarizing our educational institutions. Sincerely yours. Arthur E. White...
...ceaseless agitator for peace has been Salmon Oliver Levinson, 64, smart Chicago corporation lawyer. To him goes much unofficial credit for the idea of making war illegal, for the Kellogg-Briand Treaty or Pact of Paris. And to him went the $50,000 Bok Peace Prize for his plan of adjusting War reparations and debts. The Manchester Guardian has proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week Peace-Maker Levinson made another peace proposal: limit short-selling...
Next time nations go to war, some will surely try to bring others before the World Court, will invoke the Briand-Kellogg pact under which nearly all governments- have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately...
...north this was not so sure. Peking tingled with tales of a secret pact between Yen and Chang. The young Manchurian, it was said, would hold Peking during the winter, nominally as a Nationalist, actually biding his time. In the spring, when Chinese wars begin, he would see. If by that time the Shansi marshal and his great ally Feng had recouped their strength, Manchuria's Chang might join them in a new attempt to capture all China...
Seventy-three years old and wracked by a fever of 103, South America's greatest champion against North America tumbled tragically last week from Power. He fought the Monroe Doctrine. He would have no truck with the Kellogg Pact. He flouted the Pan-American projects of Calvin Coolidge, did his best to blight the effect of Herbert Hoover's South American goodwill tour. Yet few U. S. citizens ever knew the name of their Great Enemy: Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...