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Publisher
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.)
Date Created
1928
Description
Pamphlet promoting public awareness and support for U.S. ratification of the 1928 Briand-Kellogg Treaty (Paris Peace Pact), which sought to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy. It urges citizens to write to the President and U.S. Senators advocating for ratification of the treaty.
Excepts:
"Can the United States Ignore Foreign Affairs?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS sent our Boys into the Trenches in Europe...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS affect our Taxes.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, whether we like it or not, ARE the Affairs of the United States."
"A NEW WORLD SITUATION
The Great World has shrunk and become both Small and Complex. Time and Space are annihilated by the Inventor's Magic"...."In Our Day Newspapers, Movies, Radios and Aeroplanes bring the World to each one's door."
Corporate Name Subject
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.); National Council for Reduction of Armaments (U.S.)
Topical Subject
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928 August 27); Peace movements
Genre
handbills
Local Genre
text
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Adèle Goodman Clark Papers
Source
Why the Briand-Kellogg Treaty? Can the United States Ignore Foreign Affairs?, 1928, M 9 Box 103, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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M009_b103_i012.pdf