Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 72 hours of intensive negotiation, M. Laval and Sir John released the text of what was at least a formal agreement. To newshawks eager to call it a pact, Pierre Laval observed indulgently, "I should call it a full agreement, but I see no reason why you should not call it a pact...
...public consumption, but there is little reason to believe that the British have Machiavellian designs. Unquestionably they are much disturbed over the potential dangers to their seacoast towns and cities in the rapid increase in the number of airplanes being constructed in Germany, and their plan for a regional pact for air defense is designed to meet this danger. But in this era of nationalism, no nation can be blamed for a close regard for its own interests...
...Shall they demand that Germany, in exchange for recognition of her rearmament, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and re-enter the League of Nations...
...stabilization now. He is the storekeeper who has not cut prices. While the other two deplore the unquestionably bad effects of present world money chaos, each hopes to gain brief advantage by prolonging it just a bit more. Last week only highest powered optimists hoped that a money stabilizing pact would be hatched by the Premier and Prime Minister in London...
Eastern Locarno. Assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...