Word: protocolic
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Japan and the United States are the only industrial nations which have failed to ratify the Protocol. Nevertheless, the U. S. has conscientiously abided by its terms without question-until Vietnam...
...Senate leadership will turn the Protocol over to Senator William Fulbright (D-Ark.) who, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will begin hearings a few weeks later to discuss the pros and cons of the Protocol...
...history repeats itself, the Protocol will be doomed. The United States, which helped propose the Geneva Protocol and signed it in 1925, submitted the Protocol to the Foreign Relations Committee in January, 1926. Six months later the Protocol was reported out of committee favorably. But floor debate in December, 1926, revealed considerable opposition and the issue was never actually brought to a vote. After some delay, the Sentae returned it to the Executive with other doomed treaties...
Drawn up after the horrors of gas warfare in World War I, the Protocol stands as one of the most closely adhered to agreements involving warfare. There have been only three confirmed violations: Italy against Ethiopia under Mussolini, Japan against China at the outbreak of World War II, and recently Egypt against Yemen...
Eighty-four countries have ratified the Protocol. These include all members of NATO except the United States and the Warsaw Pact nations. China ratified the Protocol in 1929 and Red China remains a party today...