Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin made no comment but, significantly, it permitted Moscow correspondents to cable a lie of a kind which had not come from Moscow since the abrupt end of the Soviet Union-German pact in 1941. The British Government spoke stiffly, swiftly: "There is no truth whatever in the story...
Therefore the current Soviet policy is based on the creation of a cordon sanitaire in reverse in Eastern and Central Europe. The small states in this cordon, mutually not too friendly, would be tied to Moscow by agreements like the Soviet-Czech pact. Any overall federation in this area would form a large unit which might become a menace to Russia; that is why Moscow has opposed any Balkan, Danubian or Scandinavian federations...
Winston Churchill, defending his advocacy of an understanding with Russia, once declared: "I would make a pact with the devil himself if it would save England." Now Hitler twisted this symbolism: "It will not be Great Britain who will tame the Bolshevik devil, but Bolshevik poison will eat up Britain more and more and lead her to ultimate disintegration...
...surprise to anyone were the terms of the new Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty finally released last week. The pact signed at Moscow, with Joseph Stalin's and Eduard Benes' beaming approval, was first of all a 20-year military alliance, aimed against a specific enemy: Germany. The two Governments bound themselves to make no separate peace deal now, and to exchange full military assistance if either should be attacked by a resurgent Germany. For the postwar period they pledged full economic collaboration and agreed to keep out of each other's internal affairs...
Gloom and Room. Technicians noted with gloomy satisfaction that there was a significant difference between the new treaty and the 20-year Anglo-Soviet Alliance of 1942. The British treaty, by its own terms, would be superseded by any overall security pact among the nations. The Czech treaty has no such provision; it is a straight two-way proposition regardless of any general international agreement...