Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the League of Nations Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Locarno Pact, had then adjourned without taking any punitive action. Playing close to the sidelines instead of in the middle of the official field, the Locarno Powers, by means of a British White Paper, had stated the terms on which they would settle the issue of Germany's treaty rupture: 1) occupation of a strip of the Rhineland frontier by British and Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court...
...Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels told him the world had had enough Nazi stump-speaking for the present. A 19-day "oratorical armistice" was thereupon declared for all Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked aggression'' against them during the period of negotiation. True, Foreign Minister Eden had told Ambassador von Ribbentrop that these talks were not to be directed against Germany. Nevertheless the British Cabinet was scheduled...
...they were based on the inferiority of a Germany without sovereignty over its own territory. It then launched into a recapitulation of 1914-18, touching off the Allies' hamstringing of Woodrow Wilson's famed Fourteen Points, the Allied occupation of the German Ruhr and the Franco-Soviet Pact of this year. The emotional, if not the legal, argument of this last was that if a man who has humored one neighbor by keeping his dog in the house finds that that neighbor has agreed with the neighbor on the other side to keep both their dogs in their...
...more troops to the border, the stalemate to be policed by a commission of one Briton, one Italian and one neutral. During the succeeding period of negotiation, Germany will demilitarize back from the border mile for mile with France and Belgium, will make a 25-year non-aggression pact with both, will discuss a mutual assistance pact, an air pact and non-aggression pacts with Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Austria...
...abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt on the exchange in respect to the canal tolls...