WORLD COURT: Elevation of Kellogg

Next time nations go to war, some will surely try to bring others before the World Court, will invoke the Briand-Kellogg pact under which nearly all governments— have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately and...

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