Signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
Reich Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann (middle left), The French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (middle) and his U.S. counterpart, Franklin Billings Kellogg (middle right) at the completion of the Kellogg-Briand Pact named after the initiators Briand and Kellogg in the Clock Room 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.