Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Browder and his U. S. Comrades. The Party press went first into a silence, then into a great writhing (see p. 32). Back to Manhattan from vacation hastened Comrade Browder to set the capitalist press aright .in his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution to world peace"; 4) when disclosed...
...Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price"). By bedding with Hitler, Joseph Stalin was shown to have done him a fatal favor (PACT SPLITS AXIS WAR ALLIANCE, headlined the Daily Worker). That Russia had replaced Japan in the Axis, the Communists perforce denied...
What they said was that had Führer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded, ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank...
...still worse-treated minority, but by making the sporazum a big factor in Axis policy. Facing Germany and old Austria in the North, Italy across the Adriatic (and presently in Albania), with over 60% of her exports going to Germany and Italy, Yugoslavia stayed out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, turned down a British guarantee, pledged herself to maintain neutrality toward Italy and Germany in the event...
This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum was announced as ready for signing as soon as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul agreed. A Balkan saying has it that the only difference between a Croat and a Serb is that a Croat is ten minutes late, a Serb ten minutes later. Last week it looked...