The State

Secretary of State Kellogg sounded off twice during the week and was a party to one quiet order.

World Peace. To the Council on Foreign Relations, at a banquet in Manhattan presided over by John W. Davis, Secretary Kellogg expounded "The War Prevention Policy of the United States." He generalized on the subject of multilateral treaties to outlaw war in such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France--who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note--that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does not yet understand how any nation's membership in the League of Nations prevents it from forswearing war with any and all nations.

Morocco. To the foreign offices of France, England, Spain and Italy, Secretary Kellogg sent a note assuring those countries, which were about to confer on the administration of Tangier in Morocco, that the U. S., though not represented at the conference, expects continuation of the "open-door" policy in the internationalized part and zone of Tangier--equal rights, opportunities and protection for all-comers. France and Spain have lately been the de facto joint rulers of Tangier, with England looking on. In 1923, a Tangier conference was held without representatives from Italy or the U.S. At this month's conference, in Paris, Italy was expected to try to "strengthen her position."

Nicaragua.The Administration's answer to last week's news from Nicaragua (see p. 18) was a quiet order to the Navy Department to send 1,000 more marines to Managua at once. The week's news was that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy.