Frank Billings Kellogg, the American Secretary of State at the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the Clock Room of the French Foreign Ministry, for which as a co-initiator he received in 1929 the Nobel Peace Prize. Sitting at the back table, the French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (center). and his German counterpart, Gustav Stresemann (left beside him, covered). In the Kellogg-Briand Pact 15 nations pledged to outlaw war in Paris. Until 1929 63 states joined the pact.