Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enforcement Provided. Secretary Kellogg explained: "As I have already pointed out, there can be no question as a matter of law that violation of a multilateral anti-war treaty through resort to war by one party thereto would automatically release the other parties from their obligations to the treaty-breaking State...
...High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another...
RENUNCIATION OF WAR...
Those three words have been explained until their meaning in international law is perilously close to nil, but they are still three words, three resounding words. They will be understood by many U. S. voters as meaning NO MORE WAR. If they should ever come to have that meaning to all the peoples of the World, the explanations, reservations and quibbles of statesmen will fall away like husks and Frank Billings Kellogg will have triumphed indeed...
...signing this compact at your request, a compact to end war, and yet we understand that you are increasing your navy...