Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consul at Geneva has been present at one meeting of the Council, we are not in a position at present to act preventatively through the League, to the de- gree of the United States was a member, and even though an act of violation of the Kellogg Peace Pact does involve us. The platforms of both parties have accepted consultation to supplement the Pact. Why not regularize it through the League...
...That "the United States should grant those guarantees of security which she herself has envisioned." This was understood to be a reference by M. Herriot to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's recent Manhattan speech in which he said: "Consultation between the signatories of the [Kellogg-Briand] Pact, when faced with the threat of its violation, becomes inevitable." Seemingly the Chamber thought that M. Herriot should get from the U. S. at least a promise to consult and also, if possible, a promise to take armed action against an aggressor state. Next day the State Department told Premier...
...That all European states sign a round-robin pact of non-aggression and of mutual armed assistance against a pact-breaking aggressor...
...That League of Nations members sign a special pact, pledging themselves to take the punitive action against an aggressor envisioned in Article XVI of the League Covenant...
...water-borne commerce has forced the great shipping lines to lay up ships, slash services, cooperate with traditional rivals in eliminating duplicate runs. When these economies failed to shore up crumbling merchant marines, pride and profit have dictated mergers. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American signed a 50-year pact partitioning their North Atlantic trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan...