Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to recognize in the [Kellogg] pact lack of any obligations for disarmament, which are the only genuine guarantee of peace; the insufficiency and indefiniteness of the formula itself for the prohibition of war; and the existence of several reservations having the object to suspend in advance even appearance of obligations toward the cause of peace...
...pact objectively imposes certain obligations on the powers before public opinion and gives the Soviet Government a chance to put before the participants in the pact in question of the greatest importance for peace -the question of disarmament, the solution of which is the only guarantee of preventing war-the Soviet Government expresses its consent to sign the Paris pact...
These heroes of the War, and these alone, received the gold-starred baton of a Marshal of France...
...Moroccan Marshal." He was born in France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...