Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Russian's way of saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
...Expert Strang took no new formula to the Kremlin, was merely trying to wheedle unbudgeable Russians into entering a pact without specific British anti-aggression guarantees to reluctant Latvia, Estonia, Finland, observers thought Seichas likely to last for a long time. The more so as hard-headed Kremlin negotiators with one ear glued to the good earth hoped to make capital out of British embroilments with Japanese in China...
...Secretary Hull's pact with Brazil is important because...
...very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...
...find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that he is no great friend of Russia was also counted upon by the British - who have found themselves on the selling side of the deal - to give the Russians the idea that Britain, too, could take a pact or leave...