Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right hand of His Majesty sat the new Prime Minister of France, spruce, go-getting André Pierre Gabriel Amédee Tardieu, and next to him the shaggy, great old man who started the idea of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, dozing with a deceptive air of inattention next to Minister of Marine Georges Leygues...
...science, and after an experience mainly in a field that brought him in contact with natural forces. Looked upon in this way, President Hoover's Armistice Day speech, and the whole of his course about peace, may possibly be regarded as the most far-reaching, not only since the Pact of Paris, but since a much earlier date. It is a new way of thinking about war and peace, a new approach to the problem, an approach which is as new as modern science...
...recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
...Kellogg Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...
Imperial Prostration. By way of kowtowing and prostrating himself before the most powerful oligarchy of modern times-the dry Senators of the U. S., whose votes will be needed to ratify any Naval Pact which may be made-the King-Emperor directed last week that the Refreshment Room in St. James's Palace shall serve no intoxicants for the duration of the Conference...