Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were loudly trumpeted as a "military commission." The fright: more evidence that Joseph Stalin was getting set to work with Germany if Poland was easily overrun. >Nobody paid much attention when Rumania rejoiced at Italy's neutrality, set to work strengthening her Eastern frontier, discussed a non-aggression pact with Hungary...
After the Nazi-Communist pact had brought together the Church's two bitterest enemies, diplomatic activity in the Vatican became more intense than ever. It kept right on after war came. Pius XII recalled his vacationing Secretary of State, Luigi Cardinal Maglione. Together they composed last minute appeals, conferred with ambassadors to the Holy...
August 21. At midnight the German press suddenly announced that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop would go to Moscow to negotiate an anti-aggression pact with the Soviet Union...
Until the Munich pact last fall, British doctors, like the Poles, gave little thought to the prospect of war. But immediately after Munich, Dr. John Henry Hebb of the Ministry of Health and President Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P. When war came last week they had mapped detailed plans down to the last patch of adhesive tape for the treatment of bombed civilians. Far more flexible and expensive than the French and German plans for civilian medical care, the British war system will cost ?27,000,000 and guard...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...