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...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 the obligations provided for in the draft treaty of the United States...
...said Senator Fess, who is to keynote at the Republican convention, President Coolidge would accept the nomination if, to escape deadlock, the convention should draft...
...French Republic has no intention of subscribing to the simple multilateral treaty "renouncing war" which was submitted to the Powers, last fortnight, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23). The French warning went to the Powers, in the form of an alternative treaty draft, proposed to take the place of the Kellogg Treaty. Inspection showed that Foreign Minister Briand of France had felt obliged to so qualify the expression "renouncing war" as to emasculate it of all meaning. The Briand Treaty is in six elaborately weasled articles, whereas the Kellogg Treaty contains but three which...
...anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right up to the moment the balloting begins and "potential" strength is demonstrated, the powers-that-are in the G. O. P. would remain poised upon the Rock of Plymouth, able to "draft" Calvin Coolidge again, if need be, or to dictate his successor to the deadlocked boomers of Hoover and Lowden...
...puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from Washington to put all the works on Mr. Thompson's friends, to advance the cause of Wet America First and the Draft Coolidge cause. Credulity can get a crick in the neck even in Chicago politics...