Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perspiring happily, Uncle Henry Morgenthau* told how he had been working "day and night" since the Conference opened to line up the World's Big Five wheat exporting countries (U. S.. Canada, Russia, Argentina, Australia) in a pact to enforce 15% cuts in their next year's wheat crops and restrict exports. Since rich & pious Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett came to the Conference proposing such a plan he joined forces eagerly with Mr. Morgenthau. Because a wheat pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow...
...bold blunt aims of Benito Mussolini's "Four-Power Pact" as originally announced (TIME, April 10) were partial revision of the post-War treaties and gradual granting of arms equality to the defeated nations. Last week, emasculated beyond recognition. Il Patto a Quattro was ready to receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing...
...impression that nothing would please him better. Sirens shrieked. Il Duce dashed from the Senate, followed by the three ambassadors in their cars, to his vast, lofty, stone-floored office in the Palazzo Venezia. There, while a Roman crowd roared applause outside, the four statesmen squiggled their initials. The pact of collaboration is to run for ten years and if (See col. 2) not denounced before the end of the eighth year will continue indefinitely in force, terminating only upon two years notice that one of the signatories wishes to withdraw. Ten minutes after the initialing, Roman newsboys rushed through...
Under the impression that everything was rolling smoothly. Premier Daladier rose in the Chamber of Deputies to retort to ultra-Nationalist Louis Marin. If the Daladier Government signed the Four-Power Pact the Nationalists threatened to overthrow the Cabinet. Snapped Premier Daladier...
...Heretofore you have not supported me much, and I will sign the pact hard and fast...