Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History's Man. Yugoslavs had just finished a day of dancing and singing in Belgrade's squares to celebrate their new pact with Russia. The news from America smothered every jollity. Marshal Tito's Government decreed a four-day closing of theaters, cinemas, concerts. It banned music and dancing in restaurants. Hour after hour people called at the U.S. Embassy to voice their sorrow: "We have lost our best friend...
...Under these circumstances the neutrality pact . . . has lost its sense. . . . The Soviet Government declares to the Japanese Government its wish to denounce the pact of April...
Russia's denunciation of the neutrality pact with Japan was merely an act of politics and diplomacy. But no one knows better than the Japanese that war is merely the continuation of politics by other means. As realists, the Japs could scarcely doubt that now the question is not whether, but rather where and when...
...Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...
...probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe is somewhat lightened by the discovery that we are in rather distinguished company . . . Senator Elbert Thomas [and] Senator Johnson...