Calvin Coolidge at the signing of the Kellogg - Briand Pact
The American President Calvin Coolidge (middle) at the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact named after the French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and his American counterpart Franklin Billings Kellogg. At left next to Coolidge sits the Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, right next to him sit Kellogg, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Secretary of War Dwight W. Davis. Behind them are other cabinet members and members of the Senate. The 15 signatory countries (including Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USA) pledged to renounce war as a means of solving international conflicts
Picture No
10517645
Media ID
48011263
Size
2389px x 1929px
(1.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / SZ Photo / Scherl
Date
1929


