Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overnight Diplomat Titulescu abandoned his seemingly deathless hostility to a pact with Reds. Dr. Maniu was able to announce that the Rumanian Foreign Office (by which he meant M. Titulescu) will now "enter into friendly relations with the Soviet Union...
After 13 weeks of haggling, Rumania last week signed an international oil pact with all the great oil producing nations except Russia. Terms of the pact are thought to bind Rumania to keep oil production down to 1930's level, to enforce further reductions in proportion to any drop in consumption below 1930's rate. But this news caused little cheer to oilmen in the U. S., for once again their industry faced a crisis...
...torn a piece out of the living body of China. She has done this by violence which she refused to call war. although it was a war. breaking thereby the treaties which both she and China had signed, the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the Kellogg Pact...
...There are those who argue as though the action of Japan were a violation of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact. But such contention has no foundation in fact. . . . The anti-war pact does not put restraint upon the exercise of the right of self-defense...
...Washington from 1909 to 1911, Ambassador to Russia during the World War. In two separate Japanese crises he became temporary Prime Minister. He was created successively a Baron, Viscount and Count and served on the Privy Council from 1924 to 1929. In 1928 he signed the Briand-Kellogg pact for Japan. In 1931 just before the Manchurian question became acute he was appointed president of the South Manchuria Railway. Japanese regarded the appointment as an effort to lift that all-important job above party politics...