Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes in return for the granting of virtually all demands known to have been made by strikers. Boomed joyous Jouhaux as his fat fingers signed, "not merely a success but the greatest victory for workers which the history of trade unions has ever recorded...
Polish Communists seemed more passionate, more vengeful, less efficient than German Communists. They specialized in foreign affairs. Said one: "Poland and Germany are at present trying to draw France away from its pact with the Soviet Union because France and the Soviet Union are well-nigh invincible. Polish enmity against Czechoslovakia and Rumania is based upon its efforts to keep them away from a Russian bloc. The next war is being planned against the Soviet Union...
...stage strangely dark the pact between Sender and Nissen was pledged in such a leisurely prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally...
...State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements were often repudiated by their governors or their legislatures; when negotiations were begun again a new set of unofficial representatives would appear and all discussion had to start again from the beginning...
...Atatürk assuring him of a treaty-revising conference "without delay." Soviet Russia hastened to assure Turkey of its backing. Though the Italian Foreign Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French and Italian "spheres of influence." Outraged Turks rose behind the "Grey Wolf" and proceeded to chase...