Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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European students consoled them: "You are too impatient . . . unduly pessimistic. Numbers of German students don't even know what the Kellogg Pact...
Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
...devoted three Page One columns to a discussion of the treaty. It indicated that an agreement had been reached between the two nations whereby each would maintain a strict neutrality "in the event the other is attacked without provocation by a third power or group of powers." A similar pact exists between Germany and Russia...
After hemming, hawing and being very, very nice to Comrade Litvinov for three days, the League statesmen weasled by adopting a resolution in the Commission on European Union ("the United States of Europe") which earmarked the Litvinov Pact for "further study." Up jumped the bearman, growling that Russia was ready to sign a pact of economic non-aggression now, and that now was the time to sign it. He moved for action. Up jumped Turkish Foreign Minister Twefik Rushdi Bey and seconded the motion. The bearman, turning upon Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, wanted to know...
...recently despised Red, Comrade Litvinov had done himself proud. He might reflect that 18 months of delay preceded confirmation of the toothless Kellogg-Briand Pact (TIME, Sept...