Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone on the inside had a hand in the affair. All was far from well in self-encircled Germany last week, and in the beer-hall gathering there were old-line Nazis, bred on anti-Communist doctrine and bitter about the Russian pact; ambitious, frustrated Party chiefs; veterans still rankling over such ruthless purges as that of Ernst Roehm...
...ring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors became France and Britain. The Comintern's spokesman laid down this Party line...
...explained the details of the starting of the present war,--how Hitler suddenly found unbearable a non-aggression pact with Poland, which three months before had been publicly solidified by a speech in Warsaw of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Another date which official Italy chose to forget was the second anniversary (Nov. 6) of the now defunct anti-Comintern Pact. The Government exchanged no congratulatory notes with Co-signers Japan, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Manchukuo...
These were not leaders to give Italy merely a negative neutrality. Freshly-manned, Italy turned at once to the Balkans: conversations led to an exchange of warm letters with Greece, notes which had the actual effect of a pact of friendship. Thus Italy took step No. 1 in the widely heralded effort to dominate the Balkans. Next step: talk with Bulgaria. This week Premier Mussolini's conference with his new Under Secretary of War, General Ubaldo Soddu, embraced "certain instructions to prepare and to enlarge" the Army...