Kellogg–Briand Pact
In 1929 and 1930, the "Portland Press Herald" and the "Portland Evening News" "waged an editorial war" about the Kellogg–Briand Pact and the 1930 London Conference on naval arms limitations: the "Evening News" took a pacifist view, arguing in favor of the Pact; the "Press Herald" took the opposite view, calling the Pact "a delusion and a dream." This dispute illustrated a political chasm within the Maine Republican Party at the time between "Old Guard regulars" and pacifists.