Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rejuvenated power in Eastern Europe. It has re-secured its hold on the Little Entente, which has lately been looking toward Germany and Russia with sidelong interest. First of these to fall in line was Czechoslovakia, which last week signed with Russia practically a duplicate of the Franco-Russian Treaty of Mutual Assistance, with the proviso that neither is bound to assist the other if France does not. Furthermore, France has checkmated Germany for the present. And it has dislocated Britain's lofty balance-of-power role in the League of Nations. Last week M. Laval...
...left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that both Germany and Poland have unsettled quarrels with Lithuania and that Poland does not want Czechoslovakia in an Eastern European league. But so potent was the Franco-Russian combination that last week there was a fair chance that most of the invitees will be obliged to accept...
...Honorable Senators!" he cried, and every Fascist leaned forward, knowing that potent words would follow: ". . . The problem of Italo-Ethiopian relations is the order of the day, and not only in Italy. . . . One rumor abroad in some foreign circles is to be denied formally immediately-a rumor of Franco-British diplomatic 'steps' in Rome...
...time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty to Pilsudski...
...whereupon nations which sign the pact will render "aid and assistance" to block "unprovoked aggression." The treaty runs for five years and unless denounced by one of the signatories at the end of the fourth year, runs indefinitely. It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military. The French and Soviet general staffs will shortly exchange key experts. More important, France contemplates a colossal barter in which she expects to take Soviet oil, ore and minerals in exchange for 3½ billion francs ($231,000,000) worth of French rails, railway rolling...