Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warriors Forward. Gradually the military, and especially the Army extremists, made headway. In 1931 the Kwantung Army fomented the Manchurian Incident which led to the puppet state of Manchukuo. In 1936 the military got credit for the anti-Comintern Pact with Ger many. In 1937 the Army saved the Navy's disastrous Shanghai landing party. And for a while the Army's prestige skyrocketed with the China war, which later led to the longest stalemate in modern history...
...world. Even so, the preparations could not go fast enough to keep pace with the meteoric Hitler. So in 1939 Joseph Stalin, falling back on his peasant cunning, decided to make friends with Hitler in order to postpone the conflict until he was ready for it. By his pact with Germany, Stalin started the war which he knew was bound to engulf him eventually...
...year past, Argentina is clamoring for more U.S. products than the U.S. can ship; her market belongs to the U.S. for the duration, pact or no pact. Chief articles wanted: autos, refrigerators, industrial and farm machinery and other scarce items with which the U.S. cannot supply even its own citizens...
Since the pact can be terminated at any time on 30 days' written notice, it also meant little from the longterm, post-war economic viewpoint. Two days after the signing, Argentina agreed to sell her entire exportable beef surplus (500,000 tons) to Great Britain. Added to other heavy British purchases, that meant another sizable chunk of sterling credits frozen in London. When these are thawed by peace, Argentina undoubtedly will do her shopping in Europe. Supporting reasons: lower costs, better terms, partial European control of normal Argentine trade...
...peace on some terms might not be a criminal notion! Has our government no head to devise such an alternative? Or is it bound to acquiesce tamely in British summary rejection of every future peace proposal short of the complete military surrender envisaged in Article Eight of the Atlantic Pact? Then inded we have sold ourselves to the task of carrying warfare into Europe, not to defeat Hitler, not to save England, not to release subject peoples, but to promote the additional interests of British statecraft. I do not say these are evil interests: I say they are not ours...