Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been clear almost from the start that forces outside Spain would decide this civil war. Last week the fall of Teruel happened to coincide with a general realization among Spaniards that Chamberlain, Hitler, Chautemps and Mussolini are now dickering toward a four-power agreement (see col. 2). Its effect would be to rule out any victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square...
Repeating his accusation that Mussolini had told Britain she must enter negotiations "now or never," Eden continued. "Is it to be 'an agreement, when you can get it, negotiated on a solid basis' or is it to be 'an agreement, if you can get it, regardless of the basis...
Supposedly the agreement was made at an informal gathering of the college heads at Lynah's plantation in Savannah, Georgia last December...
Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...
...been stolen from M. Wauters' desk. In the chamber M. Wauters was able to prove: that the planes were three obsolete Fokkers of no military use, bought in August 1936, several months before M. Wauters was a Cabinet Minister, a week before Belgium entered the Non-intervention agreement, and 2) that the planes are still in Belgium...