Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Redwood who works in the die room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General Motors has an orchestra and a chorus of 400, some of them foundrymen, some division managers, some electroplaters and one a patent attorney. Buick men sing in the Industrial Mutual Association Glee Club in Flint. Ford has no chorus, no orchestra of its own but boys in the Henry Ford Trade School are proud of their German Band. Ford uses the regular Detroit Symphony for its radio concerts...
...Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain he had. It was probably the best bargain the realistic little butcher's son had ever made in his life...
...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 set out to articulate his future...
...Open to all," refrained Laval, Stalin and Litvinoff over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that...
Died. Archibald Ashley Welch, 75, president since 1924 of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.; after long illness; in Hartford, Conn...