Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol was not speeding the instrument toward ratification as swiftly and smoothly as he had anticipated. Senators opposing the Treaty had jockeyed the Senate into requesting him to submit confidential documents relative to its negotiation and, when he refused, the opposition brought forth an offensive reservation to the Pact. While no open filibuster yet existed, it became plain to the President that the Treaty would not be disposed of in ten days as he had hoped...
...Austria, the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the great Dual Monarchy, and Marie Vetsera, pretty young noblewoman, were found by horrified attendants. Since then controversy has raged: 1) whether they were both killed (by order of Emperor Francis Joseph); 2) whether they died voluntarily in a suicide pact. Author Claude Anet, and many another, thinks Rudolph shot Marie, then himself. Rudolph, as Author Anet shows him to us, was intelligent, able, liberal-minded. But he was married to a wife he detested, his father ignored his suggestions about army and government. In despair Rudolph wined and wenched till...
Wired Hearst Correspondent William P. Flythe from Washington: "In highly confidential naval circles, where admirals may not talk for publication, it was said the two statements from Great Britain were only propaganda to influence the United States Senate and obtain American ratification of the pact...
...hands of Secretary of State Stimson hangs the problem of Soviet Russia, which the U. S. has not formally recognized as existing but with which the State Department must nevertheless occasionally, deviously cope. When it was a matter of reminding Russia that, as a signatory of the Pact of Paris, she really should not go to war with China, Statesman Stimson had to utilize the good offices of Foreign Minister Briand of France as interlocutor (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week another ticklish Russian problem arose, Mr. Stimson's second. He felt it advisable to prevent the Glenn L. Martin...
Statesman Stimson seemed driven to this ground for his announcement by the fact that both Britain and the U. S. have been selling fighting planes to the Nationalists (anti-Soviet) in China. Thus it was too late to invoke the Pact of Paris for this emergency. The somewhat paradoxical ground of U. S. non recognition of Russia laid the State Department open to fresh charges of "hypocritical and unwarranted interference with American business" (Scripps-Howard). Also it was obvious that unrecognized Russia must construe the act as an unfriendly one. Nevertheless, Mr. Stimson took these risks. From the historical viewpoint...