Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong he was to be proved in the next 48 hours...
Late Sunday night-not the usual time for such announcements-the Soviet Government revealed a pact, not with Great Britain, not with France, but with Germany. Germany would give the Soviet Union seven-year 5% credits amounting to 200,000,000 marks ($80.000,000) for German machinery and armaments, would buy from the Soviet Union 180,000.000 marks' worth ($72,000,000) of wheat, timber, iron ore, petroleum in the next two years. And at Monday midnight the official German news agency announced from Berlin...
...Supreme War Council and Commander of the Army Corps at Lille. Britain and France hoped to bring off with a show of force what cautious persuasion, begging, wheedling had not accomplished in months: a three-way military alliance with Russia which would be something besides a suicide pact...
...Ivan Maisky spoke of Russia's strength and peaceful intentions at a dinner for British industrialists, launching stories of negotiations unique in diplomatic history for their repeated reports of success unaccompanied by any concrete results. In the next week Britain was reported to be: 1) weighing a Soviet pact; 2) conquering her fear of Communism; 3) considering Russia's attitude favorable; 4) rejecting Russia's proposal for a six-power conference as premature. By the end of March Russia was reported: 1) to be pleased by the British stand on Poland; 2) to see Britain yielding...
Holding them up all this time, said Prime Minister Chamberlain last week, were conflicting definitions of "indirect aggression"-i.e., a Nazi coup in Latvia, Estonia, or other states which may be guaranteed against aggression by the pact. France, Great Britain and Russia all wanted to avoid giving the impression that they were "encroaching upon the independence" of the guaranteed countries. France and Great Britain felt that the Russian proposals could be interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory...