Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lollypop. In London and Paris, as well as in Berlin and Rome, statesmen expected bilateral pacts now to be swiftly made between France & Italy, Britain & Germany, after which they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...
...three main sections of the pact provide: 1) Britain is to transfer to Eire without reservation or compensation the three deep-water naval stations of Lough Swilly, Bere Haven and Cobh (Queenstown) which since 1921 have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will...
...Valera lost no time in putting his achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week...
...Welles, who last summer met and greatly admired England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week, according to the most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to issue a statement approving the Anglo-Italian pact. In any case Mr. Roosevelt, who last fall at Chicago proposed a "quarantine for aggressor nations," felt obliged to tell a press conference: 1) that he had neither approved nor disapproved the Scott Resolution, and 2) that the U. S. "approved" the Anglo-Italian agreement as a "proof...
...mile bicycle trip from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...