Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...
Ghost Grey reverberantly charged that, although the Pact is now defunct, it has so embittered Anglo-U. S. relations that only the most reassuring moves by the British Government can win back U. S. goodwill...
Commenced the King: "My relations with the foreign powers continue to be friendly. . . ." Ears strained to hear the bugaboo name of the Anglo-French Pact. But His Majesty in deep clear tones praised instead the Kellogg-Briand treaty renouncing war (TIME, Sept. 3), and omitted entirely to discuss that other Pact on which all thoughts were focused...
...plumper blue-bound pamphlet, called a "Blue Book," were issued last week, respectively by the British Government and the French. Momentous, the pamphlets total 114 pages. They release officially, for the first time, that notorious series of secret Anglo-French communications feverishly rumored to constitute an "agreement," a "pact" or even an "entente" between France and Britain, contrary to the interests of the U. S. and Italy (TIME...
...killed the pact...