711.0012 Anti-War/1511a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)4
120. In an article appearing in the New York Times today, a Washington correspondent of that paper referred to the statement made in [Page 299] the Secretary’s speech at New York, September 15,5 to the effect that the Kellogg Pact had been greatly impaired and the correspondent made the deduction that this statement forecast abandonment by this Government of the non-recognition principle. At the press conference today the Secretary stated in substance, in response to a question, that in his New York address he referred to the fact that the Kellogg-Briand Pact on account of disregard by a number of countries had been seriously impaired. The Secretary further stated that there was no purpose in mind to suggest the idea that because international treaties in many instances had been violated this Government would abandon such treaty relations or abandon the policy of entering into international agreements; that on the contrary he sought in the most effective way possible to keep alive and perpetuate the doctrine of the Kellogg Pact. See Radio Bulletin of September 17.