Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place it is illegal to give the Nazi salute or sing Nazi songs in Austria. Moreover, Adolf Hitler has just made a pact with Kurt von Schuschnigg pledging Germany rigorously to abstain from interfering in the political affairs of Austria (TIME, July 20). On the strength of this agreement, Austrian amnesty was granted thousands of imprisoned Nazis. Last week these brawny fellows turned out to heckle Prince von Starhemberg and President Miklas. The Prince had the advantage of speaking into a microphone...
...flirtation of Der Führer and Il Duce, symbolized last month by the Pact of Berchtesgaden (TIME, July 20), was adorned last week by Adolf Hitler with a thumping reward to its negotiator, Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. Although this swank, sly predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators...
...party to the Dardanelles convention was Germany, but Nazi authorities promptly hit the ceiling on reading the draft of the proposed Montreux pact, claimed that its concessions to Russia completely upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...
...fingers of Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, have now dipped into China as well as into the Balkans (TIME, June 29 et seq.). The official Japanese Domei news agency put on its wires that China and Germany have just signed a trade pact with three clauses...
Office. Hitherto Japan and Germany have been so deep in diplomatic cahoots that Russia has openly been arming to resist an East and West "pinching of Communism" between the armed forces of Germany and Japan. Last week, however, the Japanese War Office liked its story of an economic pact by Germany and China behind Japan's back so much that at once in Peiping "reprisals" were taken by Japan's swashbucklers...