New Britain herald., 1929-10-11
KELLOGG TREATIES
 ELEGANTLY BOUND
Beautiful Document Being Filed Away in Govt. Archives


 Washington, Oct. Il LPl-The Kel- logg peace treaties with several dog en foreign nations are beginning to pile up in the state department base. ment along with some 500 other treaties which we have signed in something less than 150 years.
 Beautiful things these treaties are. suitable for deCorationse in anyone's home. Foreign offices don't just stick treaty into an envelope and mail it off: Each rocument is ele- gantly bound in leather. between boards averaging 14 by 20 inches. The binding is in the finest material. fancy designs and with the various national seals. In green and gold black and gold and red and gold, the treaties are @ rich-looking pile.
 Soon the loving, tender hands of Miss Amy c. Holland, the state de- partment's guardian and proteCtress of treaties. will have bundled them Into the buckram boxes and stood them up alongside all the other treaties which have gone before.
 It's All Very Neat
 They keep them down in the ar. chiyes room in the basement, nice, clean, cool room where you couldn't find a speck of dust. Only a few years ago most of these old doCu- ments were lying around in the sub-basement of the state. war and navy building in d pile of debris But their present home is in fire proof cases in a room with fircproo; doors and floors. And each one ha' a dust-proof buckram box of its own.
 Here you may see the very frs treaty signed by the United State as such, the agreement negotiate. by Benjamin Franklin with France It was treaty of alliance in whicl' we and France agreed to help each other any time one of us was al war with England. This treaty signed in ITS, worked fine during the Revolution, when We needed French help, but a few years later when France needed Terican help it became our first scrap of paper Expediency kept us from living up to it.
 The Louisiana Purchase. treaty was a gaudy thing in it's day, with it's great velvet covers and it's over laying network of golden sequins The parchment within, on which the treaty was written, was adorned with scroll work and loops and whirligigs by master penman. The document bears the signatures or Bonaparte. Talleyrand, Robert Liv- ingston and James Monroe, the ink of which has well stood the test ot time. Napoleons seal is on big red wax plaque about six inches in diameter, set in a gold box which is tied to the bindings with a golden cord. Most of the old treaties of i'm. portance were bound in satin or velvet; today they nearly always come in leather.
 A Dandy Whales Tooth
 There are curious items in Miss Hollands collection. Take the big whales tooth from the Fiji Island which the king of that country was naive enough to send to President Grant in the hope of getting some thing in return. Every politician in Washington knew that Grant requir ed bigger and better gifts than whale tooth in exchange for gov ernmental favors.
 But it meant lot to King Thako- ban and his people. It had been given to them centuries back by Deigar, the god of good and evil, who lived in a big cave on the big gest of the islands and caused earth quakes when he turned over and lightning when he blinked his eyes Ordinary Fiji mortals were never permitted to gaze upon this great ten inch tooth. But Thakoban was the last of the Fiji kings and doubtless he saw some handwriting on q wall. for he sent the tooth to Grant as a token of his desire to negotiate a treaty of friendship and protection.
 He wanted us to preserve the Fiji independence. We never did any thing about the treaty but We kept the tooth. Thakoban felt pretty mis- erable about it. Before long the British seized his country because he hadn't been able to pay a loan made to it by some Australians. Meanwhile, the sacred tooth lay around neglected and dusty and be- came clipped off at one end, though today 1t is enclosed in q special pouch.
 In the good old days Of diplomacy, important communications some times came from Asiatic principal ities and kingdoms which no one here could read. Thus, when a let ter from the King of Burma reached President Buchanan everyone fought it was a treaty with Siam. An American consul who had been at Rangoon finally discovered the mis- take and the thing was sent back to Asia to a missionary for translation.
 He Had Lots of Titles
 IL appeared that the king, de- scribed by himself as "OverIord O. All the Kingdom Of the Orient" "The Most Powerful Sun-Risinr King" "The Lord of Many White Elephants" and various other titles wanted to negotiate a treaty. The missionary writing 10 Buchanan suggested that a little present to the king would have "a very happy in- fluence."
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