Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement of the British and French Governments to maintain their end of the pact, namely, to aid Belgium if attacked...
...Japan in China is inconsistent with the principles which should govern the relationships between nations and is contrary to the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty of Feb. 6, 1922, regarding principles and policies to be followed in matters concerning China, and to those of the Kellogs-Briand pact of Aug. 27, 1928. Thus the conclusions of this Government with respect to the foregoing are in general accord with those of the Assembly of the League of Nations...
Mussolini was about to tread German soil for the first time in his official life.* It was his first trip outside Italy or her possessions since he went to Switzerland to sign the Locarno Pact (TIME...
Indications were that neither Mussolini nor Hitler wanted to sign anything like a military alliance between Italy and Germany, but that both were eager to revive the Four-Power Pact of Britain, Italy, France and Germany (TIME, June 19, 1933 et ante) and revamp it into a Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more...
Successfully coaxed a few years ago by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg into signing the Peace Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30, 1928) was every nation which is making war today. This summer States throughout the world were busy issuing endorsements of the peace principles recently announced by U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Last week Europe's general rule that American idealism, whether Republican or Democratic, should always be humored was suddenly broken by small Portugal...