Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become an absurdity" since the resignation of Japan and Germany. In European affairs, he hinted, the next important directives will be given not by the league of 57 states but by Britain, France, Germany and Italy which signed in Rome last July II Duce's Four-Power Pact. "At present there is a great silence about the Four-Power Pact," he went on. "Nobody talks about it but everybody is thinking about it!" Thereat the Council broke into applause...
...already confused skein of Balkan politics has been further tangled by the announcement that a four power pact including Greece, Turkey, Roumania, and Jugoslavia is contemplated and that, in anticipation of this, preliminary conversations have taken place. This has followed two years of hectic activity by Balkan diplomats during which the alliance commitments of the different states have changed as rapidly, as unexpectedly, and as inexplicably as a Cambridge winter...
Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...
...Araki called in correspondents and proposed that Japan hold in 1935 a Pacific Powers Conference with three objectives: 1) "To revise the Nine-Power Treaty" (signed at Washington to guarantee the territorial and administrative integrity of China which Japan violated by seizing Manchukuo). 2) "To revise the Kellogg Peace Pact" (violated in effect by Japan's waging of undeclared war). 3) "To lay the basis for a new naval treaty...
...great visitor, big-fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina who rolled up to Rio in a battleship (TIME, Oct. 16). Just before his departure last week dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay last week to 1) renounce aggressive war, 2) refuse to recognize territorial acquisitions made by conquest and 3) combat outside intervention in settling South American disputes. Up to the day of signing it was not known how many states...