Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Hitler has withdrawn formally from the League, the four power peace pact signed by Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy must be the subject of anxious peculation. Mussolini wants to organize a meeting of the signatories at Stresa, but Mr. Henderson has not been slow to see what a tremendous blow at the diplomatic standing of the League this would entail. By blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon...
Would the United States join in such a boycott? The American Federation of Labor has already proclaimed a boycott against Hitlerism and while the provisions of the Kellogg Pact do not specify what measures shall be taken against an outlaw nation it cannot be forgotten that Ambassador Davis, speaking for the President of the United States at the outset of the Geneva Conference, indicated clearly that America would not side with the aggressor in any conflict...
...Europe last month of President Roosevelt's grey and gracious little disarmament dickerer, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Germany has been pressed by the U. S., Britain, France and Italy to enter a four-year convention for European armament control (TIME, Oct. 2). In effect a standstill pact, this convention would bind each power not to up its armaments before 1938, would create an international inspection board to see that all nations were keeping their pledges, would provide for eventual parity of armaments between Germany and France, but not until after the four-year standstill had been scrupulously...
...another man might smack flies, big-fisted General Augustin P. Justo smacks Argentine revolts, bosses Congress (down whose retching throat he recently jammed Argentine adherence to the World Wheat Pact) and generally has fun. Last week neither the sudden discovery that agents of the Radical Party had perfected plots for a "general uprising," nor the sudden illness of Vice President Julio Roca could make President Justo change his plan of rolling up to Rio on a battleship...
...Brothers ends with the stirring words of the outlaws' pact: " 'One hundred and eight of us, each face differing from the other, yet each face noble in its way; one hundred and eight of us, each with his separate heart, yet each heart pure as a star; in joy we shall be one, in sorrow-one; our hour of birth was not one. but we will die together.'... On that day did they all mingle blood with wine and drink it and when they had drunk themselves to mighty drunkenness, they parted...