Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hero of the Corridor to Poles last week, the President-elect was expected to do everything from letting down U. S. tariff bars in favor of Polish goods to recognizing the Soviet Government? with which Poland has recently signed a friendly pact of nonaggression...
...Surmised from guarded remarks by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, who later left by plane for Geneva, that he will propose to the Disarmament Conference a pact under which all nations would "renounce force...
...John is seldom candid, but he was understood to think that if Japan had "renounced force" (instead of merely "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" under the Kellogg-Briand Pact), something could have been done about the undeclared war during which Japan bombarded Shanghai while shooting up Manchuria...
...wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world. It is necessary at the same time that it be known in advance that any result territorially or otherwise obtained by violation of the Briand-Kellogg pact will not be recognized by the body of civilized nations." Accordingly, continued Maňtre Paul-Boncour, the "first circle" would be a World Treaty by which all nations would pledge themselves to act (instead of merely talking) in the spirit of the Briand-Kellogg Pact. The "second circle" would...
...North," resigned last week as Foreign Minister of Poland. Tall, big-boned and pallid because of a plugged artery, Peace Man Zaleski has sat more often than any other statesman on the Council of the League of Nations. Insiders call him the real author of the Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact. In the past two years he has immeasurably bettered relations between Warsaw and Moscow, obtained the signing of a Russo-Polish pact of nonaggression. Why then did Poland's Peace Man resign last week? So far as could be learned, the "Pilsudski Colonels" who rule Poland more or less...