Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since Napoleon," the Warsaw radio assured the nation, "has Britain committed herself so strongly in Continental politics." Polish spirits soared with the news that 3,222,000 balky Ukrainians, shorn by the Soviet-Nazi Pact of any hope of a Nazi fostered Ukraine nation, had declared their loyalty to Poland. "The Ukrainian nation," exulted the patriotic Krakoiver Kuryer, "has extended a fraternal hand to the Poles to fight together in defense of European civilization...
...everything about Italy last week was curious. When the German-Soviet Pact was announced to the people, some editors elaborately explained that after all Fascism was a proletarian doctrine, so why shouldn't it march with Russia? The newspaper of Party Secretary General Achille ("the Panther Man") Starace called the deal "pure Machiavellianism" (much admired by Fascists) and hinted that Italy had thought...
Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...
...Turkey, oldtime friend of the Soviet Union with which it shares the Black Sea, news of the German-Russian Pact was almost as serious a shock as it was to Germany's friend Japan. It came just as the ink was drying on a French-Turkish trade pact. It also brought on what was later described as "extraordinary pressure" from Germany. Von Papen was given an hour in which to perform his suave, bully act, then President Inönü made clear to France and Britain that he stood with them in the great lineup. Turkey, said...
First Japanese reactions to the German-Russian Pact were complete bewilderment. Cabinet Ministers began the routine of hurried calls-on each other, on the Premier, on privy councilors, on the Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...