Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Mussolini grabbed the edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance to Premier Mussolini that such propaganda would...
...left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME, June 19). As one dictator to another Benito Mussolini sent no protest to Adolf Hitler last week but ordered the Italian Ambassador in Berlin to make "friendly remonstrance...
...weeks Mr. Bruce had been trying to persuade his Government to enter a "Big Four" wheat acreage restriction pact covering the U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Last week, fearing to lose personal prestige at home with Australians who have turned against the pact, Mr. Bruce further exploded: "Schemes of this character can be carried out only by Socialist, Fascist or Communist states and Australia certainly does not intend to become any of these...
...There shall be recognized as an aggressor," declared this epochal pact, "that State which shall be the first to have committed one of the following actions...
Next day this definition was signed all over again in a special regional pact between Russia, Turkey and the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia). By many London observers Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, sponsor of the nonaggression treaties, was thought to loom as a new leader in Eastern Europe, the champion of the "Little Entente" and Poland against possible German aggression. In Warsaw, where every Pole hates & fears Adolf Hitler, relieved Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck exclaimed: "This is a most important political act - a great step toward organization of world peace!" Farsighted Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov...