Reich Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann (3rd from left) at the signing of the of the Kellogg-Briand Pact named after the French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and his American counterpart Franklin Billings Kellogg in the Clock Room of the French Foreign Ministry. The 15 signatory countries (including Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USA) pledged to renounce war as a means of solving international conflicts.