Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were killed and the Ministry of Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these may form an international Communist force in time of war. The Red Army of Soviet Russia cannot, admitted Chairman Rykov, attack the Capitalist powers of Europe with immediate prospect of success. Finally the agents were cautioned not to convey instructions to the Cells by circulars "which always fall into the hands of the police," and were told to keep their...
Such was the totally misleading theme-sentence of a suave, lengthy reply returned, last week, by British Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain to the proposal made by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23 et seq.) for a treaty "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" among the U. S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan...
Tucked away in the 12 additional sections of the British reply are a series of interpretive qualifications which would deprive of all meaning the phrase "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." For example, Sir Austen Chamberlain declares: "I should remind your Excellency that there are certain regions of the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety...
...last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to mean virtually that any war in which His Majesty's Government may choose to engage will be pro facto a war of self defense...
Disgusted observers deemed, last week, that the negotiations have now become so adroitly involved that no document capable of preventing war between the signatories is at all likely to be drafted, signed...