LAD #32: Kellogg-Briand Pact

The signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact

This treaty, signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 stated that the United States and other countries would not use war as a national instrument anymore. The countries that were at the meeting were the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom/Great Britain, Belgium, France, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. This was to take effect on July 24, 1929. The actual treaty states that the leaders of all the above mentioned countries would recognize their duty in the world and stop using war as a national policy, and condemn it as a solution to international disputes, because the good relations that existed between the countries now would be sustainable. If countries wanted to settle something between them it would have to be done diplomatically, and if a country did use war to further its own national interests then it would be denied the treaty's benefits. It was also America's job to make sure that every country that signed and any subsequent countries later would have materials needed to ratify or adhere to it.

 Other countries that signed on before it went into effect were: 
 Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Panama.

Countries that were added to the treaty later were: 
Persia, Greece, Honduras, Chile, Luxemburg, Danzig, Costa Rica, and Venezuela.