Word: iron-clad
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...points to the belief that neutrality was also Italy's own sincere choice. Nor are there lacking indications that the first cracks in the Rome-Berlin Axis have begun to appear. The belief is prevalent in Italy today that Italy no longer considers herself bound to honor the iron-clad military alliance Foreign Ministers Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed so flamboyantly at Berlin late last spring...
...negotiated, the two countries have had fewer cultural relations than the U. S. and Russia. Strictly according to precedent were last week's negotiations: upsets, reversals of policy, war and the threat of war, aid to each other's enemies, suspicion, distrust and downright hatred culminating in iron-clad alliances have marked British-Russian relations for more than a century...
...Russians were quick to point out that this arrangement still left the way wide open for the British and French to attend another Munich parley (for which they have no taste). In an officially inspired editorial in Izvestia, Moscow daily newsorgan, the U. S. S. R. demanded iron-clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party...
Although the Council's proposal for a virtually Iron-clad guarantee of admission to Juniors and Seniors was turned down, the Housemasters approved the general Principe of admitting a large number of upperclassmen...
When ambitious little President Getulio Vargas of Brazil made himself an iron-clad dictator (TIME, Nov. 22), the alarmed press of democratic countries cried: "Naziism Invades Brazil." Most scared of all by this announcement was Dictator Vargas who had only intended to follow an old Latin American custom. Last week, informed that Government functionaries had ordered the deportation of 1,200 aliens who had entered Brazil as tourists and remained illegally, Dictator Vargas was shocked to learn that 900 of them were Jewish fugitives from Germany. To prevent the cry of "Nazi" being raised again, he hastily announced that...