July 24 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers). Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways, on 1 February 1934. July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican. July 27 The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war. The Red Crescent is adopted as an additional emblem of the League of Red Cross Societies. July 29 – the French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns, and is succeeded by Aristide Briand.
July 24 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading wor.ld powers). Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways on 1 February 1934. July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thu?s ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican. July 27 The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war. The Red Crescent is adopted as an additional embl,em of the League of Red Cross Societies. July 29 – the French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns, and is succeeded by Aristide Briand.