Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
...villa Pessimist Avenol settled down to wait for chaos. He was roused by French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou's project for an Eastern Locarno Pact in which was implicit the idea that Russia as a major signatory should enter the League (TIME, July 23). This week the League Council and Assembly will meet in Geneva and M. Avenol was aquiver with hope and expectation that the League will more than make up for its loss of Japan and Germany by gaining Soviet Russia...
Legislative hobbies: Farmers, Indians, peace. In the forefront of any farm relief agitation, he proposed last winter that the Government refinance farm mortgages with new currency, at a cost of $9,000,000,000. He threw his whole weight behind the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war, hopes that some day the U. S. will make armed conflict unconstitutional. In appearance he is tall, bald, hulking. He dresses carelessly. He belongs to no church, goes to none...
Stewardship. Little notice has been taken abroad of Premier Doumergue's manifold stewardship. In the realm of diplomacy his Government has all but isolated Germany, won Russia's strong support and obtained the backing of Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs...
...diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves by signing a mutual pact of military alliance. Since France and Russia possess the two largest armies in the world such an alliance would gravely upset Europe's balance of power, the one thing British diplomacy always strives...