Kellogg Briand Pact

Via Guardian Unlimited : The Signing of the Pact

On this day, 27th August, in 1928 representatives of Germany, the United States of America, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland and the Czechoslovak Republic renounced war as an instrument of National Policy by signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

"In 1928 the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, had evolved a plan for a bilateral pact outlawing war as a tool of national diplomacy. Kellogg delayed for months, partly fearful of a two-nation entanglement. Prodded into action by vocal American proponents of the "outlawry of war" movement, he succeeded in broadening the agreement to include 62 nations, among them all the major powers. Although widely heralded and recognized with the Nobel Prize, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was nevertheless full of loopholes and devoid of means for effective enforcement." - Frank Billings Kellogg, Nobel-winners.com
Posted by Paul at August 27, 2003 11:44 PM |
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