Word: pact
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Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 . . . although it did not guarantee Czechoslovakia against aggression as it did Belgium, made it inevitable that if France went to war to fulfill its own direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in ... England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government...
Chances are good that Alben Barkley would be President of the U.S. today if he had not crossed Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. But without that trial by fire, he could never have fully qualified as the best-loved Democrat, as the symbol of the Democratic mutual-security pact...
Died. Mauno Pekkala, 62, postwar Premier of Finland (1946-48), who negotiated the hated mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union; of pneumonia following a stroke; in Helsinki. He won national recognition for his work as acting director (1937-44) of the state forest service, less favorable notice for his latter-day fellow-traveling with the Reds...
Presidential proclamation of the treaty will make Chile the fifth Latin American nation to put in force a military mutual-aid agreement with the U.S. Others: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador. Uruguay last week signed a similar pact, but like Brazil, still has to ratify it. Mexico, eighth country invited by the, U.S., declined...
...they will become partners of French, British and American military men in planning the defense of Western Europe. They are the forerunners of an army that does not yet exist: the 400,000 soldiers whom West Germany will call to arms after her peace contract and the European Defense Pact are ratified by all the governments concerned. That day seemed last week to be moving farther & farther away...