New peace holiday

News in Brief

On 21 August, St Paul city council in Minnesota, USA, voted to proclaim 27 August ‘Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact Day’ in celebration of the 85th anniversary of the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact which ‘condemn[ed] recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce[d] it, as an instrument of national policy’.