{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Kellogg-Briand Pact – Part 3: A bold promise—and its silent weaknesses","description":"On a summer day in Paris, hope and skepticism mingled as diplomats put their pens to history. What, exactly, did they agree to—and what did they leave unsaid?\r\n\r\nThe Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed August twenty-seventh, nineteen twenty-eight, was brief but radical. Article I: nations condemn war as a solution to disputes and renounce it as national policy. Article II: all conflicts must be settled by peaceful means. These sentences embodied decades of battered idealism and desperate hope. The signing nations—fifteen at first, sixty-two within a few years—spanned continents and cultures. From the United States and France to Germany, Japan, and beyond, the world’s leaders appeared to make a solemn promise: war would no longer be a tool of statecraft.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thetreatyarchive.com/treaty/kellogg-briand-pact","author_name":"The Archive Network"}