Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of seven supposed members of the militaristic Black Dragon Society had to be revised rapidly. Two of the seven were dead, one of them since 1938. A third was not a member. A fourth name, that of onetime Premier Koki Hirota, who in 1936 signed the anti-Comintern pact, was removed without explanation...
...communiqués were issued as the two leaders began their talks. But with the signing of the Sino-Russian pact (TIME, Aug. 27) a change came over the Communist propaganda line. The Generalissimo was no longer a "fascist" defeatist but "President Chiang Kai-shek." The Generalissimo's regime was no longer the "reactionary Kuomintang clique" but the "National Government." Said a Communist spokesman: "We recognize Chiang as a national leader of the anti-Japanese war and we are prepared to recognize him as the leader of postwar rehabilitation...
...very hour-about midnight Aug. 13-when the Japanese warlords were bowing to Hirohito's surrender decision, Joseph Stalin moved toward a new era in east Asian politics. Abruptly leaving a Moscow banquet for General Eisenhower, Stalin hurried to the final conference on a 30-year Sino-Russian pact...
...Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China's Government could strengthen itself. How successful the breathing spell would prove depended in part on how much support-economic, financial and diplomatic-China would get from...
Cried bull-like ex-Premier Edouard Daladier, 61, who signed the Munich pact: "Pétain betrayed his duties and the charges of his office. . . ." (The sweating jurors sent for cooling drinks. Attendants brought them Vichy water...