Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Ciano was in frequent, close and friendly personal contact last spring and summer with Adolf Hitler and his diplomatic generalissimo, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. His speech last week explained why Italy, after signing a "pact of steel" with Nazi Germany in the spring, chose a state of "nonbelligerency" in the autumn...
Next day came an apparent answer to Völkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from...
...Germany wins, she will emerge from the war too exhausted to dream of an armed conflict against us. ... She will have . . . vast colonies . . . Comrades, war must burst out between Germany and the Anglo-French bloc! . , . We must accept the pact proposed by Germany and work to prolong the war the maximum possible...
William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Episcopalian, longtime editor of The Witness, longtime secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. With three bishops among its executives, the C.L.I.D. is respectable enough, but its critics have found it more complacent toward Communism than toward Fascism. After the Russo-German pact, The Living Church (Episcopal weekly) called upon Secretary Spofford to declare himself anew. He did so in a letter which the magazine published, and answered editorially, last week. Excerpts...
Commonly considered a Communist-steered organization is the American League for Peace and Democracy (see p. 16), of which Bill Spofford is vice chairman, and another clergyman chairman: Methodist Dr. Harry Frederick Ward, Union Theological Seminary professor. At its latest meeting (held after the Moscow-Berlin Pact), the League condemned Nazi and Fascist aggression, finessed Russia. Last week, without condemning Russia, the League mousily proposed against it the same sort of U. S. war embargo it had loudly urged against Fascist aggressors...