Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
BY WILLIAM HARD.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
It was O graceful gesture Of rec
ignition that the Secretary OF State
and the President Of the United states
extended the other day at an otherwise
wholly oficial affair to a purely private
citizen. Alone among diplomats and
other similarly highly placed ofncial
| dienitaries In the east room OF the
White House. and at the luncheon
afterward. OH the occasion OF the
celebration of the coming into force
Of the Kellogg BRAND pact. was this
private life parsonage, Mr.. S. 0. Levin
son OF Chicago.
Thus, at length. through the personal
courtesy OF the President and OF the
Secretary Of State. little measure of
tested TO the fact that without Mr.
Levinson there never probably would
have been any peace pact at all.
The pact is appropriately named
after Mr.. Kellogg and M. BRAND. They
negotiated it. They gave to the idea
when they understood it, their whole
hearted support. Without them. natu-
rally. their governments would not have
come together in agreement. There
can be no purpose anywhere 10 MINI
mize the value of their service TO man.
which the world SO properly heaps upon
them.
1t remains true nevertheless. that
when they first addressed themselves
to the "outlawry OF war" idea which M.
Levinson has initiated and which for
year after year through many years he
had diligently popularized in widening
circles Of knowledge through both
hemispheres. they were well-meanng
but bewildered novices at 1t.
Starts in Imagination.
M. BRAND started by imagining that
an .outlawry of war" treaty could De
signed between two countries: France
and the United States. He started by
imagining that the "outlawry OF war
movement in the United States and Eu-
rope would tolerate and applaud a oi-
lateral pact which would set France
and the United States of by themselves
in the world and which accordingly
would amount to an exclusive alliance.
Though it was not at ell known AZ
the time, it became necessary for men
who had learned the true philosophy OF
the "outlawry OF war" conception. di.
rectly or indirectly. from Mr.. Levinson
to enliehten M. BRAND. 1t became
necessary for Mr.. Levinson. himself. in
Paris to give courteous and gratefully
received lessons In his philosophy to ON
Gals of the French foreign once. Not
till then did the French government
truly realize that an "outlawry OF war
treaty, in order to reach the end pur-
posed, would have to be not between two
countries, but between the countries
Of all the world.
Parallelly, In Washington. Mr.. KEEL
logg was so unacQuainted with the &C
tual nature OF the "outlawry OF Gar"
idea that for month after month. after
NJ BRAND had transmitted 1t to him. he
let 1t lie on his desk without any aware
ness of the immense research and OF the
immense meaning that had been ac-
cumulated beneath the world "outlawry"
and behind the agitation which was
promoting II into worldwide popular
acceptance. It became necessary for
the senior Senator from Idaho. Mi.
Borah. who for nine years had been
familiar with Mr.. Levinson'S personality
and with Mr.. Levinson's philosophy. to
inform Mr. Kellogg. This was done IN
unrecorded but repeated conferences be-
tween the two men.
Critical Stage Of Progress.
Those conferences marked the gen.
timely critical stage in the negotiations.
If Mr. Kellogg had beer q narrow man.
IL he had been q shut. landed man. X
he had been q man inhospitable to ideas
not his own and not sanctioned by ira
dition. he would have recoiled from Mr..
Borah'S instruction. Mr.. Kellogg eagerly
grasped 1t and completely mastered It
and then with enormous energy and
with admirable adroitness led M. BRAND
along to accepting the "outlawry OF
war" point of view in the full complete
ness in which 1t had been developed by
Mr.. Levinson In his study and preached
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There can be, therefore, no question
of any disparagement Of Mr.. Kellogg
by any observer and narrator Of ma
tional and international events In
Washington. There can be at the saIlle
time no Disgusting of the historical fact
that the true comprehensive title OF this
peace pact is the Levinson- Borah-
Briand-Kellogg pact.
This writer has a detailed recollec-
after the great war and during the
struggle between pro-leaguers and
anti-leaguers in the United states Sem
ate when the whole Of the idea now
enshrined in the peace pact was trans
mitted by Mr.. Levinson to Senator
Knox and Senator Borah. He has q
detailed recollection Of the scornful
rejection of the idea by virtually all
Senator'S except Mr.. Knox and Mr..
expound the idea on the Senate floor in
speeches which were the first to be
made on the remuneration Of war
as an instrument of national policy"
in the history of the world.
He subsequently saw Mr.. Levinson,
who is q lawyer of vast commercial
and financial practice In Chicago, find
time to propel his idea INCREASINGLY and
finally irresistably against the wall Of
general incredulity and indifference. Mr..
Levinson IL q man whose spiritual exc
altation IL backed by indomitable body.
He never tires I'm his body and It car
ries his vigof Of mind and his warmth
q heart to Q powerfulness which 3sw