Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand-Kellogg Pact of Paris was evolved by Mr. Kellogg as a multilateral treaty among all nations from a suggestion by M. Briand that the U. S. and France sign a bilateral treaty outlawing war between themselves...
...Right Honorable Philip Snowden calling the British Empire," began the radio announcer. Then came the querulous shrill voice of Snowden: "I want first to repeat my belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...
...Opined Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard next day: "So long as the U. S. persists in its policy of collecting War Debts ... the hope that the World War may become nothing more than an evil memory . . . must remain an unfulfilled and merely pious wish...
...head lines: "The objects of the sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their practices are more Christian. When in the fullness of time there is a family of the nations, when each will give according to its ability and receive according to its needs, when war among them will be as absurd as it would now be for members of this congress to begin mur dering one another,? this will be due in no small measure to co-operation among scientific men of all nations in their com mon work...
...Heedless reporters thought he referred to the U. S. Congress. The 1923 International Congress of Psychology was the first scientific congress after the War to which all nationals were invited on equal terms...