Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December 28 Secretary of State Kellogg wrote Foreign Minister Briand, suggesting the drawing up of a Franco-American treaty to outlaw war. Within the week M. Briand countered with the suggestion of a treaty mutually outlawing only wars of aggression. On January 11 Secretary Kellogg parried neatly with a thrust that the editorial galleries applauded long and loud: that a multilateral treaty be drawn up outlawing every kind of war. This proposal France declined. Three days ago Mr. Kellogg gently renewed it, and now the French foreign office has gone slightly berserk with impatience over the incomprehension of the American...
...Rowe '27, coach of the debating team, that the question for debate with Carleton College on, March 9 has been changed so that it now reads: "Resolved, "That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in foreign lands without prior declaration of war...
...University of Porto Rico. The question which will be argued in the debate with the Porto Ricans corresponds very nearly to that in the other debate. It reads: "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in the Carribean without prior declaration of war...
...question up for debate this evening as announced by Associate Professor L. J. A. Mercier, is: "Resolved. That the United States adopt Foreign Minister Briand's treaty; outlawing war between France and the United States...
...causes that have made it necessary to take this action are to be found in the economic conditions that have prevailed since the war. The cost of education has gone up; and the gifts to Harvard do not produce enough additional income to meet the increased cost...