Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...envelope contained the first reply by any Power to the proposal for a multilateral pact "renouncing war" which U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has transmitted to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 23), in the form of a tentative treaty text. The note presented by Dr. Stresemann to Mr. Schurman declared unequivocally: ". . . The German Government ... is ready to conclude a pact in accordance with the proposal of the Government of the United States...
This meant that disarmed Germany will sign without reservations a peace pact which militant France has intimated that she cannot sign because it might conflict with her commitments to the League and her allies-commitments which may obligate her to go to war (TIME, April 30). How different is the position of Germany-which has no military alliances-was cleverly emphasized last week, in Dr. Stresemann's note: "The German Government is convinced that . . . the obligations arising from the Covenant of the League of Nations and the [Locarno] Rhine Pact . . . contain nothing which could in any way conflict with...
...Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce war...
...folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World War...
General Currie sued for $50,000 libel damages when a prominent news organ, the Port Hope Guide, charged last June that on the day the World War Armistice was signed (Nov. 11, 1918) there was "deliberate and useless waste of human life at [the capture of] Mons [by Canadian troops] for the glorification of the Canadian Headquarters Staff." This and supplemental statements were generally taken to mean that even after General Currie had knowledge of the signing of the Armistice he ordered Canadian troops into an action during which several were killed on Armistice...