Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Capone stopped off between trains at Philadelphia as he was returning from a "business meeting" at Atlantic City where he had helped arrange a peace pact for Chicago's liquor gangs. Outside a cinema theatre he was arrested for carrying a revolver. Immediately he pleaded guilty, accepted a year's sentence with such apparent relish as to give rise to the belief that he was really seeking refuge in a Pennsylvania jail from hostile gunsters (TIME...
...great diplomatic game on the International chess board is rapidly approaching a stalemate. Italy's demand for parity with France and "American frankness" in not signing a consultative pact have, M. Briand states, "opened a way for France to maintain her present figure." Though this would mean naval stabilization, it would also mean an ever larger building program. It does not seem likely that the fat figures of Mussolini's Italy will accept a more painful reducing diet than France. Mr. Friedrich, who is interviewed in this issue, points to a less superficial reason for this apparent failure which...
...announced in words so definite that they cannot be modified, but correspondents at the White House all heard that the President: 1) will not agree to the bargain proposed by France (TIME, Feb. 24), that if the U. S. and Britain sign a pact guaranteeing French security the French delegation would cut their demand for a navy of 725,000 tons by 20%; 2) the President will not agree, in diplomatic language to "implement" the Kellogg Peace Pact, or, in plain English, to create mechanism for the purpose of making its pious pledge of peace enforcible...
...might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen conferred, President Hoover hurried north from Florida (see p. 13). At the last minute Prime Minister Tardieu dropped a hint. If Britain) and the U. S. would sign a security pact, guaranteeing not to supply food or munitions to any aggressor nation in a war with France, the French Government would cut its demands...
...second wave of Moscow indignation against Washington broke two days later last week, apropos the Chinese Eastern Railway. Barely two months have passed since the State Department tried to smooth over this Asiatic crisis by invoking the Kellogg Pact, only to receive a sharp snub from the Soviet Foreign Office (TIME, Dec. 16). Moscow is still convinced that Washington acted from "unfriendly motives," believes too that U. S. Railroader John J. Mantell went to China for no other purpose than to destroy Russia's sphere of influence over the railway by fair means or foul (TIME, Sept...