Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact...
...efforts to heal the break with Russia. They tried to make General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. He was a collaborator of Dictator Pilsudski, is backed by undemocratic officers in the Polish Army; he resigned from the Polish Government when Sikorski signed a pact with Russia...
...death of General Sikorski made future Polish policy uncertain. He was not afraid of facts. Though he loathed Communism, he made a pact with the Soviet Union shortly after it found itself at war with Germany. Though his personal politics were ruggedly conservative, he included some liberals in his Government. But his Government was riddled with backward-looking Poles who opposed his policies, worked unceasingly to destroy his pact with Russia...
Said Foreign Minister Molotov, at a luncheon celebrating the first anniversary of the Anglo-Russian Twenty-Year pact: The treaty will endure "not only during the war for war purposes, but during the peace for peace purposes...
...United Nations, it meant a great strengthening of propaganda v. the signatories of the Anti-Comintern Pact, who no longer possessed anything to be anti, except the nations they had made war upon. For anti-Communists in the West, as Socialists slyly pointed out, it meant liberty to attack the Communists without offending Russia. For liberals and progressives it meant, they hoped, some chance of unity in the future. For the world it would mean good luck if it meant internationalism of a better sort...