Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombshell Sirs: The Nazi-Communist non-aggression pact [TIME, Aug. 28] did not surprise me. It was not "startling," it was no "bombshell." The reason: TIME has several times in months gone by suggested the possibility of Hitler's coming to terms with Stalin. Chamberlain should read TIME. He would not be so easily shocked. . . . CHESTER WARREN QUIMBY Saxton...
...TIME had indeed forecast the genuine possibility of a Reich-Soviet Pact but was amply shocked by the exact time and the manner of the deed...
Soviet diplomacy, as demonstrated at the pact negotiations in Moscow, is today the smartest in the world. By one master stroke, Stalin became lord of Europe. Whether through mistake or necessity, Hitler entrusted the destiny of the Reich to the care of the Secretary of the Communist Party, who, with some of the neatest footwork on record, simultaneously avoided becoming a war tool of the British; usurped Hitler's dominance of Central Europe; partly destroyed his Axis (by Muniching the Japanese...
...Chicago, sardonic Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, told a rally of 12,000 sympathizers that Poland could yet win Soviet aid if Polish workers would oust their present leaders. With Germany's war machine in motion, Communist Earl Browder changed his rationalization of the Nazi-Soviet pact from "a wonderful contribution to peace" to "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace...
...Tolischus, forecast the agreement in detail. Soon after that hints of what was coming began to appear in the German press. Said the Volkischer Beobachter on May 26: "National Socialism does not war against a State because that State has a different content from our own. .. . The anti-Comintern pact does not strike primarily at the State, but ... at Bolshevism when it reaches out beyond Russian borders. . . . That is the German viewpoint and it also appears favorable to the Kremlin...