Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to veto any action against itself, withheld the details of agreement until France and China have been consulted. The date chosen for the San Francisco conference may be significant: April 24, the day before the conference opens, is the last on which Russia may legally end its neutrality pact with Japan...
...criminals," the Rumanian Government selected a first installment of 100 generals, politicians _ and officials to be tried this week. Heading the list was Rumania's former Dictator and Premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu. When Russia strong-armed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania, ten months after the Moscow-Berlin pact (1939), Marshal Antonescu eagerly clasped Hitler's eagerly proffered hand, was unable to unclasp it in time...
Looking ahead, steelmen could see the brooding figure of John L. Lewis, and they urged that the biennial soft-coal wage pact discussions start now instead of awaiting March 1, the date now set. The United Mine Workers bided their time...
Then the Congress voted for: 1) a big French army; 2) confiscation of traitors' property; 3) "implacable justice" to traitors; 4) "Republican order"; 5) a policy of international security founded on friendship with all democratic countries, as exemplified by the Franco-Russian pact...
...fascist governments. At the other, which sat in the big courtroom of the Palace of Justice, regents, royal councilors and ministers, among them ex-Premiers Bogdan Filoff, Ivan Bagrianoff and Konstantin Muravieff, were charged with "crimes against the Bulgarian people." Among the crimes: signing the Three-Power [Axis] Pact, sending Bulgarian armies against Yugoslavia and Greece, declaring war against the U.S. and Britain, abolishing the people's rights and passing anti-Semitic laws. Among the accusers: the ghosts of hundreds of Bulgarians brutally slain for opposition to the former fascist regimes...