Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French and Russian distrust of Adolf Hitler's Germany hastened the signing last fortnight of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia (TiME, May 13). Last week France, which cherishes its old alliance with Poland even more than its new one with Russia, lost no 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...
...Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted air. Into this atmosphere Laval launched his strategic idea that Poland and Germany should join Russia in a consultative pact for non-aggression in Eastern Europe without mutual assistance guarantees. Beck, his mind on the cancer cells ravening in Pilsudski's stomach, was noncommittal...
...more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
...Franco-Russian pact is not the instrument of Nicholas II and Poincare. It does not exclude Germany. Rather Adolf Hitler, if he chooses to join Russia and France in pledging ''mutual assistance" against "unprovoked aggression," will find WELCOME written on the doormat signed last week in Paris. It specifically takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign...
...announcement which appears today to the effect that the protest has been repelled at a mutual request to the intercollegiate League that the game be played over from the beginning. It is a move based on an admirable spirit of cooperation, and upon the principles of sportsmanship which rightfully belong to all sports contests...