Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even those most optimistic about the Geneva disarmament conference look for limitation rather than any wholesale abondonment of armaments after 1932. Progress toward world peace through diplomatic negotiations seems to have halted, temporarily at least with the signing of the Kellogg Pact. Since political machinery for assuring peace will run only in low gear, new plans for preventing war have a special interest. Such a plan has been put forward by the "Youth's Peace Federation" which hopes to organize nation-wide resistance to military service...
...Socialist party of Monsignor Ignaz Seipel is opposed on principle to even economic union with Protestant Germany, the menacing reactions of France and Czechoslovakia produced an abrupt, startling result. For a few days at least almost the whole press got behind Austrian Foreign Minister Johann Schober, champion of the pact. He was able to talk big and bold. He threatened to appeal to the Hague Court...
...Berlin. Dr. Schober's colleague in drafting the pact, Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, grew even bolder. He flatly rejected a proposal by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson of Great Britain that the whole question of whether Germany and Austria can, without violating their treaty obligations, form a customs union, be put up to the League of Nations...
Truculent, wearing red shirts, a group of Indian Communists confronted St. Gandhi at Karachi last week, began to upbraid him for "betraying India" by his pact with the Viceroy (TIME, March...
...inflame the malcontents still further came news that British Justice had hanged last week at Lahore that murder-guilty patriot, Bhagat Singh.† Declaring that the pact with Viceroy Lord Irwin should not have been signed because it did not pardon Bhagat Singh, opponents of St. Gandhi went among the 6,000 delegates shouting...