Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the bombshell of the German-Russian Pact (TIME, Aug. 28), it changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling...
...drama otherwise than their imaginations had pictured. People who recalled troops going off to battle in World War I remembered singing crowds, enthusiasm, cheers, tears, flowers, flags, and were puzzled at the stoic silence, the grave efficiency, that marked the moves of this war. But as the German-Russian Pact was followed by German-Russian military action in Poland, World War II revealed its great difference: it was a war in which diplomatic moves, propaganda barrages, economic agreements, were planned like military campaigns; in which statesmen acted like Generals and Generals acted like statesmen...
...would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace by Germany? Or would Italy join Russia and Germany in some sudden, staggering move as explosive as the midnight announcement of the German-Russian Pact...
...Saracoglu's reputation grew bright. Last week none of this mattered: only what Stalin could say to Saracoglu, what Saracoglu could say to Stalin; whether Turkey, breaking with Britain and France, would join with Stalin and Hitler in another move for "peace" as devastating as the German-Russian Pact had been. Said the astute Associated Press, employing the language of Metternich: Turkey, while committed to Britain and France, had reaffirmed "her warm friendship for the Soviet Union, whose troops are massed along her frontiers...
...gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind the façade of the U. S. S. R., the great Socialist world power, a late Roman corruption grew fantastically until to the west the façade seemed torn open by the "purge" of 1936-37, blasted by the Pact...