Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Congressman George Holden Tinkham, of Massachusetts, demand investigation of alleged propaganda fund raised to support Kellogg Peace Treaty. Heard a 1930 War Department appropriation of $435,428,415 reported by the Military Affairs Committee. The appropriation provides for a U. S. army of 118,750 enlisted men and 12,000 officers...
...Treaty. Frequent discussion has made the main terms of the treaty familiar enough?by it the signatory powers "condemn recourse to war" and "renounce it as an instrument of national policy." They agree also to settle disputes "by pacific means." Furthermore, as Senator Borah stated last week, as Secretary Kellogg has previously said before the Foreign Relations Committee, the treaty should not be regarded as affecting in any manner the right of any signatory to go to war in what it considers self-defense...
...Compulsion. Inasmuch as virtually all modern wars are theoretically wars of self-defense, the question immediately arose as to what would prevent a war between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
Senator Hiram Johnson of California referred to the Spanish War, asked whether the U. S. could have gone to war over the Maine had the Kellogg Pact been in effect in 1898. Senator Borah replied that the U. S. could then have gone to war, since its ship had been blown up, its sailors killed...
...which appeared in Thursday's issue of the CRIMSON, injects new spice into a discussion which has become stale from too much tasting. Few have been the Alumni Bulletins of the past two years which have not carried some fiery communication from a graduate in regard to the proposed War Memorial Chapel. In contrast to these letters, virtually all of which confined themselves to a debate on the merits of having a new chapel at all, Mr. Paine's recognizes the inevitability of the structure, and raises a question of practical value. It suggests the building of a chapel...