Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts will doubtless be made to draw analogies between this pact and the Franco-Russian alliance which began in much the same way in 1890 with the extension of commercial credits to Russia by France. The reasons, which led to the forming of the treaties certainly bear more than a superficial resemblance; in 1890 it was due to the break in Russo-German relations after the collapse of the Reinsurance treaty and today it follows the alienation of Russia by the acts of the Hitler government against Communism. Then Russia desired support in the Balkans; now she wants the assurance...
Exercises lasting three hours were devoted to Peace, while savage jungle warfare raged less than 800 miles away in the Gran Chaco (see p. 16). Pointing out that five peace pacts of American application now exist, Argentina's courtly, old-school Foreign Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean...
...going to do about it? In this incisive little book (82 pp.) a keenly realistic observer of international affairs does his high-level best to prove that war is imminent, inevitable, that the U. S. will be in it. Observer Simonds does not believe in fairies, the Kellogg Pact or the League of Nations. He views the present state of the world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than a buried head. The Europe of 1933. says Simonds. is ''back in the situation and state of mind of July, 1914." After Japan's deliberate...
...hopes surely) to root democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany into Italy's (his) Four Power Pact (TIME, June 9, et ante). The Pact's authoritarian aim was blighted when France, urged by her Little Entente allies, injected before the Pact was signed a clause making it operative "within the framework of the League...
Italian withdrawal, chorused Italian editors, would sound the death knell of the League and greatly enhance the importance of II Duce's Four-Power Pact...