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...between the signatories of the [Kellogg-Briand] Pact, when faced with the threat of its violation, becomes inevitable." Seemingly the Chamber thought that M. Herriot should get from the U. S. at least a promise to consult and also, if possible, a promise to take armed action against an aggressor state. Next day the State Department told Premier Herriot, through Norman H. Davis who was in Paris last week, how extremely unlikely it is that the U. S. Senate will ever ratify such promises...
...power of the Briand-Kellogg Treaty cannot be adequately appraised unless it is assumed that behind it rests the combined weight of the opinion of the entire world. . . . The American Government's . . . refusal to recognize the fruits of aggression might be of comparatively little moment to the aggressor. But when the entire group of civilized nations took their stand beside the position of the American Government, the situation was revealed in its true sense. Moral disapproval, when it becomes the disapproval of the whole world, takes on a significance hitherto unknown in international...
Minor League States including the British Dominions had begun last week by demanding that the League take action of some sort or at least that the Assembly name the "aggressor" (Japan). But slowly, artfully Sir John and other statesmen of the Great Powers got the minor nations in hand. As London's famed Spectator has said, "The motto of Sir John Simon is apparently l'artifice, l'artifice, et toujours l'artifice." Last week artful John, a lawyer accustomed to receive the largest fees charged in the Empire, made short work of such whippersnappers as, for example, the Delegate...
When it began to seem that the Assembly would not even name the aggressor, Mr. te Water whippersnapped, looking directly at Sir John...
Briand: My good friend Stresemann, I am not a prophet but I truly think there are two things history will not say; that this time, France was the aggressor, or that Belgium invaded Germany. (Hilarity from Herr Stresemann...