Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further the Briand Treaty provides that violation of the pact by one of the signatories releases the others from their obligations; and that the Treaty shall not come into effect when signed but await the decision of the signatories at a special conference called to determine when it shall become operative...
...France now postulates that: "In a general way the obligations of the new pact should not be substituted for, or prejudice in any way, previous obligations contained in international instruments, such as the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno agreements or treaties guaranteeing neutrality whose character and scope cannot be modified thereby...
Styled a "Treaty of Alliance," the new pact contains important British concessions. The trouble is, from an Egyptian point of view, that Prime Minister Sarwat does not represent the majority party of Egypt, the indomitable Wafd, once headed by the late famed Saad Zaghlul Pasha. Whenever the Wafd votes down a cabinet and seeks, as the majority party, to assume power, one or more British warships are usually in evidence to menace Egyptian harbors...
...group of similar treaties with Japan, outlawing every kind of war, making the United States a kind of radial centre of world peace. France has declined to enter upon any such agreement, and is confident that the other great powers will be equally unwilling to agree on a pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges and her treaties of protection with Poland and the Little...
...where few Protestants trouble to distinguish it from the crossed keys on a white field which is the standard of the Roman Church Spiritual. That "Rome" has indeed many of the attributes to a State was shown again, last week, when the Holy See concluded a diplomatic pact with that flourishing State Temporal, Czechoslovakia. (See below...