Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for cigar-chewing Congressman Dies (last week he switched to gum), Witness Browder was under wraps. His pipe line to Moscow had failed to inform him of the Communazi non-aggression pact in time to prepare a U. S. explanation in keeping with Comintern ethics. Last week his explanation sounded like something out of a fairy tale: "It [the pact] caused dismay in Tokyo . . . broke the Axis . . . reopens the open door in China . . . lessens the danger, of Fascist penetration in South America . . . is one more step in reaching the Marxian ideal of Communism...
Russia. Biggest neutral, Russia, already indicating her preference by the German-Russian pact, headlined the news of German victories. Field Marshal Goring boasted vaguely of Russia's raw materials. As German troops reached Warsaw, the streets of Moscow suddenly became full of uniforms. Scores of high naval officers were summoned to the Defense Commissariat. Conscription decrees called nearly 1,000,000 men into service. Russia had 3,000,000 under arms...
...Fashioned. Only Poland made no gestures toward the great gallery, broadcast no appeals for sympathy. Twenty-one days after the German-Russian pact, eleven days after the German invasion began, nine days after Britain's declaration of war, four days after Germany announced the capture of Warsaw, three days after Goring heralded victory and for propaganda purposes offered peace, the Polish gate between totalitarian Germany and totalitarian Russia was still defended. To convince the world it had fallen, Germans raced breathlessly in a week through the cycle-war for the sake of effect, victory for Germans at home, peace...
When the 21 independent countries of the Americas gathered at Lima last year to draw up an antitotalitarian pact, most of them were determined not to let El Hombre's delegate, Cordell Hull, run the show. Argentina in particular hemmed, took exception, offered substitute phrases. The final draft, a reluctant Argentine compromise, postulated the 21 countries' common interest, provided that in time of crisis the signatories would consult each other. When war broke out fortnight ago, Argentina did a complete about-face and put herself in the forefront of the rush to implement the Lima Declaration...
...Bolshevist or ex-Bolshevist writings in carrying authority for the sane Western mind. With the knowledge of an insider and the detachment of a historian, Souvarine shows how Stalin succeeded to Lenin's power, how Socialism miscarried in his hands, and why the Soviet-German non-aggression pact (TIME, Aug. 28) was no surprise...