Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace. By his own account he trotted back & forth between Göring and Chamberlain, doing all he could for peace in our time. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced, Wenner-Gren knew the jig was up. Three days before the war's outbreak he sailed in the Southern Cross. After the Athenia rescue he sailed to his island in the Bahamas...
...Both the pact and the agreement had been accomplished during the incognito travels of a man known in London as "Mr. Smith," in Washington as "Mr. Brown." He was the Soviet Union's affable, square-dome Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who reached London...
...much of Britain's impulse toward the pact could be accounted for by recent high Tory feeling that, in a world where the U.S. was daily growing stronger, a pact with Russia was a sound move for the preservation of European weight in the world of the future...
...what degree would the pact produce acts inspired by the high sentiments it ex pressed? To what degree might it open a post-war era of power politics? The answers to these questions would come only with the passage of history. But meanwhile, far & wide, the conviction was growing that the peoples of Britain and Russia and the U.S. had been unified in their campaign against the Axis. And, far & wide, hope was spreading that with a victorious outcome such unity would serve to make durable last week's commitments toward world peace...
...Accord which brought the 'Police Conference into being was specific in its exclusively anti-Axis purposes: to scotch "systematic espionage, sabotage, and subversive propaganda .. . inspired by or under the direction of member States of the Tripartite Pact." Nevertheless, the Argentine Government, whose actions against the Nazis have been empty gestures but which has been carrying out a witch hunt against Communists and labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member...