Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then after just two days of discussion the Foreign Ministers came to a "perfect identity of view," announced that the Axis Powers had agreed to form a firm political and military alliance. Considering the firmness of the Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland...
...British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know...
...attempt to forestall Encirclement in the Baltic, Führer Adolf Hitler invited Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia to conclude non-aggression pacts with Germany. Latvia and Estonia jumped at the chance. The other four countries reserved judgment until their foreign ministers had a chance to meet at Stockholm, agree on a common policy. Sharpest opposition to acceptance of the offer appeared in Norway...
Officials may come and go with alarming frequency in most Government offices of the U. S. S. R., but not in the Soviet Foreign Commissariat. Amid all the shifts, purges and disappearances of Soviet officials, the Foreign Commissariat's topmost personnel has remained so constant that in 21 years since the proletarian revolution Soviet Russia has had only two Foreign Commissars: Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin, from 1918 to 1930 and Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, his successor...
Those who knew that Commissar Litvinoff actually does take rest cures at Continental watering places for heart trouble might have accepted the Soviet "request" theory at its face value had it been made at any other time. But only 36 hours later Foreign Minister Josef Beck of Poland was to make an important reply to Adolf Hitler before the Polish Parliament (see p. 21). The British and French press were beginning to talk about "appeasing" the Germans again (see p. 21), at a time when the "Peace Front" was considering involved negotiations with the Soviet Union with a view...