Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
...Rhineland Pact, which is of course the key-treaty, contains a joint declaration by France and Germany that they will never go to war again, and that they will arbitrate all mutual disputes in perpetuity. All existing treaties are to remain unaffected. And Germany agrees to apply at once for admission to the League of Nations...
...sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
Russians, attempting to put a cheerful face upon the Soviets' failure to throw a monkey wrench into the Security Pact Conference at Locarno (see INTERNATIONAL) declared: "Germany is signing a commercial treaty at Moscow with her right hand, a forced political agreement at Locarno with her left...
...American looked upon this country and said: "It is ideal." He was Harvey S. Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He had Edwin Barclay, Secretary of State of Liberia, go to the U. S. and together they drew up a pact which was satisfactory to the U. S. Department of State...