Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything is going smoothly for the pacifists, especially for Secretary Seward, when the action begins. Some one has assassinated someone and "we are on the verge of a war." "The New Peace Pact is off" and the drums beat. Secretary Seward sees his duty before him, as agent of the people, and persuades himself into a change of heart. Mrs. Seward is intractable, and like Lysistrata, she takes council with the women, who decide not to give the country any more men. She goes from lecture hall to lecture hall, even though her arm is broken when an enemy aviator...
...freedom in Italy and while he remained in power they always should. Privately, Pilgrims von Papen & Goring were assured that Italy would not countenance political union of Austria and Germany and that Mussolini still hoped to work for European peace through what was left of the Mussolini Four-Power Pact, accepted "in principle" by France last week after it had been carefully emasculated with reservations and amendments...
...Comrade Litvinov again showed his desire to cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic...
...reckoned with, that cannot be made to disappear by incantations of abuse. ... I do think, however, that something might be done for the removal of phenomena unnecessarily aggravating our relations and prolonging the world crisis. ... I may describe my proposal as a kind of economic non-aggression pact. It will at least serve as evidence of the readiness of the Soviet Union to adhere to the principle of the peaceful co-existence of the two systems [Communism & Capitalism] and of having no aggressive intentions, whether of a political or economic nature...
...unthinkable that France should adhere to the four-power pact as long as it involves treaty revision. . . . The consequences would amount to precipitating legitimization of resort to force by Germany...