LAD#27- Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact was a quite interesting act that 62 countries signed, including America. The Act was signed on August 27, 1928, and outlawed war as a method of foreign policy. Also known as the Pact of Paris (apparently one of many treaties to come out of Paris). In mid1927, foreign minister of France, Aristide Briand, proposed that the U.S. government sign a treaty outlawing war between these two countries. Frank B. Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary of State, responded with a proposal for a general treaty against war, eventually this led to the Pact of Paris which was signed. All parties who signed agreed that settlement of any conflicts, regardless of any circumstances, these nations were to avoid war. Although 62 nations ultimately ratified the pact, its effectiveness was not very large by its failure to provide measures of enforcement, as the way to enforce it was to go to war, which was exactly what it outlawed, so ultimately it failed because it contradicted itself.