Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the world from Washington, however, that was brewing which might make the Kellogg Treaty absurd on the first day of its legal existence. Soviet Russia and Nationalist China, two of the signatories of the pact, were on the explosive verge...
...Nobody needs to explain to me how to get along with the English! I have met a lot of unsolicited advice about that, but I resent advice about how to get along with the English. ... I have got something to say! What we want is a pact of complete friendship and trust [between Britain and the U. S.]. That is what I am trying to bring about...
...accept the pact of peace as a covenant of personal and national honor...
...even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom, were to attack, invade, annex Agravia, Clavery would then control calcomite, sell it to America. But one Paul Zelinka becomes King of Clavery and outwits them all by making a pact with the Agravian President appealing to all peoples to set up a world control of calcomite. This is the first step towards internationalism and the universal brotherhood of man. Naturally, Mr. Wells is aware that this bald doctrine would be a bitter pill in the throats of a typical film...
...idea of a French statesman, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, was approved by Mr. Hoover as suggestive of a means of compromise between Great Britain and the U. S. in the cruiser dispute. Briefly this idea as unfolded to the Committee last year is that under a disarmament pact giving Great Britain the right to build a certain tonnage of destroyers, she might transfer a portion of this allowance out of the destroyer class and build cruisers under it instead...