Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludwig crashed the Stalin gate by rushing to Moscow as the representative of Germany's most potent daily, the Berliner Tageblatt. Shrewdly Tageblatt had raised a rumpus about an innocuous pact of non-aggression now being negotiated between Russia and Poland. Did that mean the end of Russo-German friendship? Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! ? such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach. Stalin spoke...
...Substitute for departments or ministries of war, navy and aviation a singel department or ministry of nationa fense. There is no longer room for the word 'war' in the permanent organization of any government signatory to the Pact of Paris, or giving its adherence thereto...
...making their ideas known on this delicate subject." Finally the Journal des Débats, often the voice of the French Government, denounced the Conference as "conceived . . . to force upon France in the name of international collaboration a solution unfavorable to our country" (i e., actual Disarmament without a pact of Security for the special benefit of France...
Later, because Dr. Salomon's manners were infinitely better than those of most newspaper photographers, because he interrupted nobody, bothered nobody, he was invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that...
...increase Japanese worries, spies reported that supplies of Soviet ammunitions and machine guns were appearing mysteriously in the Manchurian camps of Chinese "Generals" hostile to Japan. Such threats were no mere League of Nations note or invocation of a shadowy Pact of Paris. Post-haste the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Koki Hirota, rushed around to make a deal at the Soviet Foreign Office with that very cold Red fish, Comrade Leonid M. Karakhan...