Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels Ambassador Kurusu was suspected of being as anti-Axis as his American wife, who was Alice Little of Chicago. He was a member of the swank Circle Gaulois, to which no German belongs. In Berlin it was Ambassador Kurusu's duty to sign Japan's Axis Pact...
...National Congress, twice Party President and persistent threat to Mahatma Gandhi's leadership, has been sentenced eleven times to British jails. Last week he was beyond British grasp. India's Council of State announced officially that he "has gone over to the enemy" and signed an Axis pact inviting India's invasion. Guessed the Council: He is probably already in Berlin or Rome...
...further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the three Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Chinese-Japanese conflict. These words (part of Article 3 of the Three-Power Pact signed in Berlin just over a year ago) last week had Japan worried...
...week's end the invitations remained unanswered. Tokyo spokesmen coyly explained that Adolf Hitler's statement, because of its "important nature," required further study; comment on "such matters as Japan's obligations under the Tripartite Pact" would be premature. Onetime Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's foresighted interpretation (last December) of the Axis agreement was recalled: if any of these three powers is attacked by an outside power, the three signatories must confer and decide whether the case comes under Article 3. Tokyo brass hats knew that any move south, despite Admiral Lützow...
...Soviet-German Pact nearly cost the warriors their face. They recovered after the fall of France; Hitler's western conquests spurred Japanese hotheads to even louder talk about a "Greater East Asia." The Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...