Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overthrown the work of Woodrow Wilson, they could pose as the real founders of peace among nations. . . . But why should France play that game?" That is to say, France may prefer to work for universal peace through the League of Nations, and not through a U. S.-sponsored "multilateral pact...
...scheme advocated by the lesser nations who are in more constant danger of war, but it relies upon the strength of the powerful, who certainly will not act unless it happens to agree with their immediate as well as their ultimate interests to do so. Nor is any security pact to which America is not a party really capable of enforcement...
More specifically, Article Three of the new pact declares: "In case one of the contracting parties is threatened with war, unprovoked by itself, the other party shall employ all its most efficacious means not only to prevent hostilities but also to secure just satisfaction for the threatened party...
...nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
Coaches Should Make Pact...