Happy Birthday!

Astride Briand, French statesman and diplomat,

was born March 28, 1862
(died 1932)

Briand was co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, which outlawed war as an instrument of foreign policy.
Sixty-four countries signed the Pact, including all those that would make up the Axis Powers!

          Last night I had the strangest dream,
          I never dreamed before,
          I dreamed the world had all agreed,
          To put an end to war.
  
          I dreamed I saw a mighty room,
          The room was filled with men,
          And the papers they were signing said,
          They'd never fight again..."
  
                  Ed McCurdy, "Strangest Dream" [thanx Steve Suffet]

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