Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...
...years ago Mr. Harriman, then only 29 years old, made a pact with the Hamburg-American Line. In 1916, only three years out of Yale, he had decided that "the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the U. S." was shipping. He put to the back of his mind the legacy of railroad activities that his dour, nervous father, Edward Henry Harriman,* left him, that he himself trained in. He took interest in a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware, enlarged it, built concrete shipways. After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission...
...first drawn up last fall, one of vital importance and interest throughout the whole world, has come into particular prominence during the last week. On account of the crisis in the situation concerning Germany's entrance into the League of Nations Council, the security, which the Locarno pact promised to the nations of Western Europe, has been threatened...
Although this has been a subject of preeminent interest for the past few months on account of the far reaching possibilities the agreement offered, it is of particular importance at the present on account of the recent crisis in connection with the Locarno pact...