Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicaraguan war, with its causes and effects, as well as America's policy in relation to it, will be explained to members of the University tomorrow by Socrates Sandino, brother of General Sandino, the leader of the insurgents in the Central American state...
...discussion of the Central American war and the current political situation in the Caribbean will take--place immediately after luncheon and will be open to the student body and faculty of the University...
...Kellogg has allowed the European nations generous reservations and granted none to the United States. His "implied reservations" to the pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy include self-defense, violation of the treaty by any signatory, obligations of the League of Nations states arising from the League covenant, and the Locarno obligations. To offset these concessions Secretary Kellogg has asked no reservations for such a vital American policy as the Monroe Doctrine...
...arbitration treaty which he is negotiating Mr. Kellogg has excluded from arbitration the Doctrine. But in the war renunciation treaty in its present form the United States promises not to emplay war as an instrument of national policy, with no exception in reference to violations of the Monroe Doctrine. Not accepting arbitration in such a case, the United States would be shackled by its renunciation pledge and unable to resort to force except through the weak plea of self-defense, a plea which the unified League nations would probably oppose strongly...
...sharp contest between Governor Alfred E. Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and adoption of a plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...