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...Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy"-but that defines nothing, least of all aggression, the primary act of war. For the first time in history aggression was defined in a binding treaty last week when Russia signed the pact with Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Estonia and Latvia...
...Comrade Litvinov offered secret and highly favorable terms to the Western border states for a pact guaranteeing that none of them will attack Russia's European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score of the week for the big. beaming Russian was a quiet agreement reached in the chambers of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. This cleaned up the mess resulting from Moscow's badly bungled...
Visiting U. S. Minister Charles Calmer Hart in Teheran, Persia, Theodore Roosevelt was hospitalized for two days when a waiter, one T. Birjand, spilled a boiling samovar into...
Legation of the United States of America Teheran, Persia...
...grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from 1933. 2) Area of the concession is reduced from 500,000 sq. mi. (about five-sixths of Persia) to 250,000 sq. mi. until 1938, 100,000 sq. mi. thereafter. 3) The company loses its exclusive right to pipelines in Persia.* 4) The company shall pay four shillings a ton on oil sold in Persia or exported, and ?225,000 in taxes during the first 15 years...