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third of which deals only with issues of ratification and effect. The meat of the issue,
then, is in the first two articles 12 :
Article 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
controversies, 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 or solution of all disputes
or conflicts of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall
never be sought except by pacific means.
Perhaps most striking is the number, and broad geographic representation, of states who
initially or subsequently became parties to the treaty (see Table 2-1 and Table 2-2).
State Date of Depositing
Instrument of
United States of America, Australia, Dominion of Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, India, Irish Free
State, Italy, New Zealand, Union of South Africa.
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Ratification
2 Mar 1929
Poland 26 March 1929
Belgium 27 March 1929
France 22 April 1929
Japan 24 July 1929 *
Table 2-1 Original High Contracting Parties to the Kellogg-Briand Pact. (Author’s table).
State Date of Depositing
Instrument of Adherence
Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Before the date of
Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, effectiveness of the
Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia,
Lithuania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, panama, Peru,
Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Turkey
Treaty, i.e. 24 July 1929
Persia 24 July 1929
Greece 3 August 1929
Honduras 6 August 1929
Chile 12 August 1929
Luxemburg 14 August 1929
Danzig 11 September 1929
Costa Rica 1 October 1929
Venezuela 24 October 1929
Table 2-2 Further Adhering States to the Kellogg-Briand Pact. (Author’s table).
* At which point the Treaty was formally proclaimed.