Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final vote brought ratification for the Security Pact (300 to 174), and authorized the German Government to apply for admission to the League of Nations (278 to 183). In each case scattered deputies refrained from voting...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible for whatever the Reichstag does. Now the Socialists have taken the plunge. They intend to assume the responsibility and reap the rewards of making possible a coalition capable of ratifying the Pacts. Chancellor Luther has allegedly promised them that the present Cabinet will resign if and when the Pacts...
...significance of those words, for they knew the story of an agreement which a certain Dr. J. Allen Gilbert of Portland, Ore., had made with his wife just before she died eight years ago. Both had been interested in spiritualism. While the woman lay ill they made a pact that if she died she would try to communicate with him through a medium. To defeat fakery, they fixed upon a countersign, wrote it down, sealed it in an envelope. It consisted of the date of Dr. Gilbert's birth, of his wife's, of their daughter...
...great power. The Locarno Conference was not ideally complete in its labors, but it was distinctly a step in the right direction for Germany and the world. I have every confidence the concessions promised us in the Rhineland will be granted. The German people cannot afford to reject the pact...
...means to an end does not matter. Either the Reichstag will ratify the pact or the German people themselves will be called upon directly for its approval. I myself, as well as Foreign Minister Stresemann, believe the pact means peace in contradistinction to the pre-War European balance of power...