LAD #27 Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact was signed by 62 nations on August 27 1928. The countries signed included, but were not limited to, the United States of America, France, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Originally it was designed to just be for the United States and France but it was opened up to many other countries. Its overall purpose was to keep the nations from going to war with each other, and also to create an alliance between the countries. It was signed in Paris and it eventually went into effect on April 24 of the next year. Frank B. Kellogg was the U.S Secretary of State he eventually agreed to the proposal by Aristide Briand, the French foreign minister.