Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House debating, newest and most pretentious branch of Debating Council activity, will be launched tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Eliot House common room as Eliot argues Winthrop on the Munich Pact. Highlight of this and of all future inter-House debates will be the participation of prominent members of the faculty...
Other faculty orators scheduled to appear are Joseph A. Schumpeter, George Baker Professor of Economics, representing Dunster, and Lowell's William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, who will oppose each other on the Munich Pact in the Pioneer-Bellboy fray tomorrow night, in Lowell Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
After saying the world faces "major disaster" if the rearmament race is not halted, and making what some Navy Leaguers thought was an oblique reference to efforts to get an Anglo-German aerial limitation pact following up the Anglo-German Naval Limitation Pacts of 1935 and 1937, Ambassador Kennedy declared that "the American people look forward to the day when the nations of the world will realize they must agree upon limitation and reduction of armaments...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
...swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers. These were estimated at Washington last week in quarters close to the Navy Department. Based on figures for all kinds of effective fighting craft (day & night bombers, fighting, reconnaissance, transport...