Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the Kingdom of the Belgians has relied not on its ancient neutrality but upon the League of Nations, the Locarno Pact and more especially upon the British and the French for protection against an other onslaught. In recent months the British have not only winked at German violations of the Treaty of Versailles but have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand...
...second step toward a better world of gold, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. this week announced that the U. S., Britain and France had reached a temporary agreement for the exchange of that metal in the course of trade. Though Secretary Morgenthau called this pact, secretly negotiated by transatlantic telephone, a "new type of gold standard," it was really nothing more than a technical extension of the U. S.-Franco-British agreement of last month to use their respective stabilization funds to steady the dollar, the pound and the franc (TIME...
...developed by the course of trade. Any other country with a stabilization fund and a desire to end international currency fluctuation was welcome to join Secretary Morgenthau's party. As for the ordinary citizen of France, of Britain or of the U. S., this week's gold pact changed his monetary routine...
...with war material. . . . Dismay in London tonight." Amid feverish excitement British Broadcasting Co. put on the air that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, as Acting Prime Minister, had just promised Labor Party leaders that Britain would join Russia in considering herself no longer bound by the Non-intervention Pact if the charges that it had been violated were proved. This last week was the high point of European tension-from which things fell like plummets...
...hurry, ate a placid lunch in Paris with socialist French Premier Leon Blum. The Frenchman calmed his British guest greatly by saying that Paris would not join Moscow in precipitant intervention to save Madrid but would continue with London to go through the motions of observing the Non-intervention Pact while unofficial and semi-official gunrunning to both Whites & Reds flourishes in Spain...