Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results. If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin concluded the Pact for its immediate effect-to be so startling that the world would at once accede to dismemberment of Poland-the bitter laugh was on them. Poland behaved as if nothing had happened. Britain, France got madder if possible. Italy went into her oldtime wobbling act. Japan began slapping Germans in Tientsin. Catholic Spain was outraged...
...Hitler and Stalin concluded the Pact for its long-range results, it could evoke almost illimitable visions-two world revolutions merging to divide the world. But the Pact was less than a week old when Stalin surprisingly caused his Congress to delay ratification. By all the omens the Pact had an unhappy life ahead...
Russia's papers and magazines have lately been so jampacked with accounts of shortages, mismanagement, blundering, that exiles reading it from afar wondered if violent anti-Communists had got control of the controlled press. As last week's news of the German-Russian Pact left the world gasping, urgency of the reports suddenly became understandable. As correspondents speculated on where, when & how Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler got together, the Russian picture of Russia's condition suggested that more than high politics egged Stalin on. Not theories, which could be changed, or political opponents, who could...
Agriculture. Russian peasants were worried last week, but not about the Pact. They were "greatly unnerved" at something going on in their own back yards. Land-measuring commissioners were prowling around checking up on the small garden plots, on the collective farms, where peasants produce food for themselves. The wheat harvest dropped about one billion poods (602,000,000 bushels) below estimate. There was the usual 25% loss of grain between reaping and threshing, because the stalks lay in the fields for weeks, because too many combines were broken down. But this year both Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov...
...most good Germans it was something of a shock. Had not they been told for six years that Russia was their bitterest enemy? But that didn't mean the Pact wasn't a wonderful thing. Did it not plainly mean peace? Now they would get from the Poles what rightfully belonged to them, and Russia, their friend, wouldn't march through to attack them. Now the "encirclement" of the democracies was at an end. Now it was certain that England & France wouldn't fight. If there was to be a war, it would...