Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about what any U. S. President would have found it safe to say at such a juncture. He spoke of the "incalculable" consequences of rupturing the "fabric of peace." He disavowed for the U. S. any "mesh of hatred." He reminded his addressees of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, etc. Said he: "The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe...
...consideration." Prague papers were encouraged to print them in full, placed under rigid censorship as to editorial comment. As the Czechoslovak cabinet sat hour after hour indecisively pondering its answer to the Anglo-French proposals, the Government sent a blunt question to Paris: What would France do about its pact with Czechoslavakia if Prague's answer was no? The question was born of desperation. Under the treaty setups, Czechoslovakia can call on France for aid only if she is the victim of "unprovoked aggression," can call upon Russia only after France has marched. President Benes had been informed that...
Thus The Netherlands-which has $1,000,000,000 invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer...
...which the hard-headed Admiral has in another fire. In Bled, Yugoslavia, the Baron was attending a meeting of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania), satellites of France. There on behalf of Regent and Hungarian Premier Béla Imrédy, the Baron "agreed in principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under the Treaty of Trianon (1919) not to rearm; 2) Hungary and the Little Entente would refrain from employing force of any kind against one another; 3) the Little Entente would speedily arrange for better treatment of Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia...
Birthday. The Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact, which 15 leading nations (including Italy, Germany, Japan) signed in Paris, thereby forever condemning and renouncing war as an instrument of national policy; its tenth...