Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcing his adherence to the Oath Bill, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night released photostatic copies of his sworn oath which revealed elaborate reservations. Mather added affirmation of his allegiance to the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, and to the Declaration of Independence, which, like the act states the right of peoples to alter their form of government...
...speech called attention to the fact that in 1929 the United States imported more goods than ever before. The magic of the numbers 1929 in the American mind needs no emphasis, and perhaps this statistic can be made the "open Sesame" to a more sympathetic acceptance of the Canadian pact. As Mr. Hoover said, those affected by the new rates were not heard. They certainly will be now. Whether Mr. Roosevelt likes it or not, he will hear from them, and in loud tones, but it is hoped the government will ignore individual interests for the common good...
Instead II Duce committed his Sin No. 1. Nauseated by what seemed to him the futility of the League of Nations and the many failures of international conferences to settle anything, the Dictator made a separate and sinful pact with France, which sold him for a definite quid pro quo the right, so far as France was concerned, to exercise a "free hand" in Ethiopia (TIME...
Mussolini's Sin No. 2 in the present crisis, his use of war as an instrument of national policy, similarly depends upon the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928. From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze...
...involved and tenuous for most laymen is Italy's claim that she has not violated the Covenant, but not so easily brushed aside is her claim that she did not violate the Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact...