Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without Friction." On Oct. 13, 1940, just after Germany, Italy and Japan had signed their tripartite pact, Russia was asked to make a fourth. Ribbentrop wrote Stalin a 19-page letter outlining Nazi views and inviting him to send Molotov to Berlin to develop "a common foreign policy." On Oct. 21, Stalin thanked Ribbentrop for his "very instructive analysis" and said Molotov would reach Berlin...
...right. For the loser in a war, punishment was certain. But this was not a matter of law; it was simply a matter of course." In the wake of World War I, however, he continued, repeated efforts were made to outlaw war, "reaching their climax in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 63 nations, including Germany, renounced aggressive warfare. During that period the whole world was one, [ but ] we lacked the courage to enforce the authoritative decision. . . . We did not reach the second half of the question: What will you do to an aggressor when you catch...
...Jong's fears into political terms. Jonkman, who lost all his hair in a Jap prison camp in the Indies, worked so hard to draft his speech to The Netherlands States-General that friends feared his health would break down. After he made the speech, interpreting the proposed pact between the Dutch Government and Soekarno's rebel Indonesian government, Holland's politicians and people were still as unhappy and undecided about the issue as Pieter de Jong...
...pact recognizes Sumatra, Java and little Madura as the Republic of Indonesia, whose degree of independence will be great, but is deliberately left vague. Borneo and the Great East (see map) will be left under Dutch control. Both the Dutch and the Indonesian nationalists agree to work toward a federation which would bring the whole Netherlands East Indies into a future United States of Indonesia, a sort of Dominion under the Dutch Crown. Further negotiations to clarify the pact are expected. Meanwhile, the Indonesians think that events are moving too slowly toward independence, and the Dutch think they are going...
...Supreme Soviet, exercising "exclusively . . . the legislative power of the U.S.S.R," has never yet written any legislation, but is occasionally allowed to ratify decrees which the Government has already issued. Classic instance: when Molotov told the Supreme Soviet in 1939 that Russia had abandoned collective security in favor of a pact with Germany, that body unanimously accepted his report without debate "because of the clarity and consistency of the foreign policy of the Soviet Government...