...Article I stated that the parties "solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international...and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another." This statement was a striking change from the nineteenth century...

...declare in the names of their respective people that they condemn recourse to war for the solutions of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. When signing the Pact Germany entered a reservation to the effect...

...August 27, 1928. By 1930, some sixty other countries had signed. Article I called for each signatory to "condemn recourse to war for the solution of international...renounce it, as an instrument of national policy." The language in the Pact left rhetorical loopholes about the nature of aggression. Ultimately, the...

...hold states accountable for aggression. In the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, signatory states agreed to "condemn recourse to war for the solution of international...and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another,"24 and to settle their differences only by "pacific means."25...

...I. The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international...and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. Article II. The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement...

...treaty: The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the name of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international...and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.'3 This is often cited as the central source of the norm against...