Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat exporting countries (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) had been held up for a fortnight while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next day the "Big Four" announced themselves agreed on "a policy of temporary adjustment of production ... to world demand, with a view...
...Soviet Embassy in London last week seven states which border Russia signed a unique pact against aggression. Years ago nearly all nations signed the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy"-but that defines nothing, least of all aggression, the primary act of war. For the first time in history aggression was defined in a binding treaty last week when Russia signed the pact with Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Estonia and Latvia...
...Legation of friendly Poland with Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Turkey-all states bordering the Soviet Union on the West. Since Russia was having trouble in the East last week (see col. 2). Comrade Litvinov offered secret and highly favorable terms to the Western border states for a pact guaranteeing that none of them will attack Russia's European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score...
...gold standard nations (France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium & Poland) nearly frantic. They feared they would be forced off gold should the dollar fall much further, and it had already dipped lower (to 76.3?) than at any time since 1864. President Roosevelt, they knew, was determined to reject any pact for permanent dollar stabilization, but would he agree to a joint statement pledging the world's central banks to steady the dollar, at least for the duration of the Conference? Such a statement must be carefully worded. Locked in a big room the gold standard statesmen, dubbed "Golders" by London...
Australia, according to cables reaching the London Financial Times, stood resolved last week to hold aloof from the Morgenthau wheat pact, thus rendering it unfeasible, but her dynamic Resident Minister in London, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier, kept pestering Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons daily with long, urgent dispatches at 40? per word. Meantime as dry heat seared a U. S. crop already short, wheat soared 13? a bushel for the week. Texas wheat...