Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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POLAND AND GERMANY (Jan. 26, 1934) pledged mutual non-aggression and promised to defend each other against attack with a ten-year pact signed in Berlin by Polish Ambassador Lipski. In the Reich this renunciation for a decade of German designs on the Polish Corridor rates as Adolf Hitler's most unpopular policy...
...BALKAN PACT (Feb. 9, 1934) signed at Athens by Foreign Ministers Maximos, Tewfik, Titulescu and Jeftitch of Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugoslavia pledges all signatories to defend the frontiers of each. Attached was a secret protocol, since divulged, extending the Pact to guarantee all Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...
...principal athletic event of the Dartmouth Carnival, the Crimson hockey outfit will meet the Indian skaters, who are seeking to defend their championship title. Fifteen players will make the trip, headed by Hovenanian, Holmes, Hallowell, Watts, Dow, and Emerson, who will compose the starting team...
...hard money folk the brightest news in Paris last week was persistent leakage of rumors that Pierre Laval in Rome promised Benito Mussolini a whopping French loan to defend Italy's lira on the gold standard...
...masters most notably missing from the Hastings tournament were Dr. Alexandre Alekhine who was resting for the match in which he will defend his world's championship against Dr. Euwe this spring, and Germany's handsome, beefy Ewfimij Dimitriewitsch Bogoljubow. The gallery, watching the tables in the hush of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club, were most interested in two equally famed players neither of whom did as well as might have been expected. José Raoul Capablanca, onetime champion of the world, lost two games and finished fourth, a point behind the winners. Fat, solemn Vera...