Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first anniversary of the Tripartite Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan meant to the world that the pact had failed in its principal aim. That aim was to paralyze U.S. policy by simultaneous threats in both the Atlantic and the Pacific...
...Japanese, therefore, celebrated the anniversary last week with reserve. Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda made a speech in which he emphasized the peaceful character of Japan's designs, her desire, as an Axis partner, to prevent the extension of World War II. Since the pact was approved by Premier Prince Konoye and most of the present Cabinet, since it was blessed by the Son of Heaven, this was as far as a polite Japanese Minister could go in the way of saying that the pact did not mean anything...
Nobody, least of all the U.S. Government, supposed that Japan would not find the pact full of meaning if, at some later date, it became safe to challenge the U.S. Just now Japan was preoccupied in keeping the U.S. mollified by polite doubletalk. But to German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott double-talk is not pleasing. At an anniversary luncheon at Foreign Minister Toyoda's home he talked straight...
...Japan has violated the Nine-Power Pacific treaty and the Kellogg Pact-not to mention her League of Nations obligation. The only way to keep those treaties alive is for one or more of the signatories, who guarantee those treaties, to take action under those treaties...
...Arabia a present of coffee is a pledge of friendship stronger than any written pact, and for years Britain has courted the friendship of fanatically religious, 65-year-the old Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam of Yemen. A notably independent, notably stingy monarch, he for years nursed a boundary grudge against the British Government, listened attentively to the blandishments of Italy's would-be imperialists. But his camel loads of coffee meant that at last he was on Britain's side...