Editing 1929 (section)

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1929}}
* [[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 on Prisoners of War (1929)|Geneva Convention]] addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.
** The [[Red Crescent]] is adopted as an additional emblem of the [[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies|League of Red Cross Societies]].
* [[July 29]] – the French prime minister [[Raymond Poincaré]] resigns, and is succeeded by [[Aristide Briand]].