Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, a great champion of peace and a statesman whose name will go Gown in history as one of the most courageous of the post-war era, is being mourned by the World to-day, At a time when the bulwarks of the Locarno Treaty were crumbling and inter= national agreements "for the preservation of eace, made afler the Covenant of the League Nations had proved too full of holes, showed that they needed additional reinforcement, Mr. Kellogg and the late M, Aristide Briand were Joint-authors of the pact which has come to bear the former's name and which will be remembered as a great act of renunciation by nearly all the nations of the world—the reudiation of war as an instrument of national policy. Mr. Kellogg, lived to the age of elghtyone to see the policy he had persuaded the world to accept overthrown and. dishonoured, Solemn signatories of the agreement found that their interests were, so they thought, better served by the use of force. "While they @d not Geclare war, they did everything else, and the text of the pact was reduced to the status of a tragic signal which could be Ignored by any party at will=-to the resultant. discord of world relations. "While this must have been a severe disappointment to Mr. Kellogg, as it was to others, it could not detract from the honour and value of the pact itself, His name will go down history as a famous, if unsuccessful, cham pion of peace and goodwill in international relations, Mr. Kellogg rose from lowly begin= ings to the position of Secretary of State In the United States, a position second only in im-Portance to that of the president, Before ac-Cepting this onerous duty, he had éccupled with distinction the post of Ambassador to the Court Of St. James, during the tenure of which office he had endeared himself to the British public and achieved an understanding of British alms and polley which fow of his countrymen had at that time obtained. After being Secretary of Stale, he was appointed to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague and won, many honours from the legal profession in his own country. Academic honours from univers sities the world over were also showered on this man, whose education was almost entirely from correspondence courses and schools which he attended during hours reclaimed from the burdensome task of making a living. One of the principal tributes to his worth wax the bestowal of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920—an honour which was later shared by his colleague in the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, No better testi-many could have been paid'to Mr. Kellogg, It was no fault of his that military mithlessness has nade tatters of his treaty. Rather should the tribute be paid that he wis one of those who made war and the advocates of war the more shameworthy, since to gain their objec~ tives they had to dishonour themselves and their countrymen by bursting the bonds of yet another solemn oath,
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