Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first that they will cooperate in Captain Eden's Spanish Non-intervention Committee at London to bar all further foreign volunteer soldiers and foreign munitions from the Spanish Civil War, in accordance with recent Franco-British proposals; and second that, between now and the time this anti-volunteers pact can be drafted, signed and sealed, both Italy and Germany will continue pouring volunteers and munitions into Spain, frankly anticipating victory for the Spanish Whites before the dawdling London Non-intervention Committee can agree on anything...
...tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy to make possible so grandiose a reshuffle of the entire European situation...
...British-Italian pact are these explicit words: "So far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." When Der Führer's correspondent asked II Duce if the setting up at Barcelona or elsewhere in Spain of a Soviet State would "destroy the status quo in the Mediterranean," which Britain and Italy have just pledged themselves to abide by, the Dictator snorted: "Obviously...
...Whites are fighting. In these circumstances II Duce could and did contribute to maintaining the status quo in Spain last week by sending another 10,000 Italian troops to aid the Whites (see p. 23) and this did not seem to shock official Britain. In an annex to the pact, Count Ciano declared, with particular reference to the Balearics, that "so far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." This said nothing about the large Italian force at present in the Balearics, and Count Ciano may have given...
Hitherto Italian Fascism has gone easy on Jews, many prominent Italian Jews holding responsible Government posts, but II Duce knew his friend Der Fiihrer would not be exactly pleased by the new Anglo-Italian pact last week. The thing to give simple Adolf, decided deep Benito, was a rousing anti-Jewish article in Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Popolo d'Italia. This tongue-in-cheek lashing of Jews last week served II Duce the further purpose of permitting him to attack by implication the Premier of France, M. Leon Blum, a Socialist and a Jew. Mussolini considers Blum...