Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
Ever since Munich Blum has been plumping for French rearmament, strengthening of the Franco-Soviet Pact, a united front against aggressors. He has supported Premier Daladier's foreign policy since that policy edged away from appeasement, even traveled to London to persuade the Labor Party to abandon its traditional fight against conscription...
Internal harmony restored, Labor then jumped with ineffectual vigor on Prime Minister Chamberlain, damned his delay in concluding a defensive pact with Russia, denounced his policy in Palestine by a vote of 890-to-2. But it accepted conscription lying down. And although it began preparations for a general election, probably this autumn, observers noted with Sir Stafford gone it had no popular leader likely to lead Labor to a national victory, that no Labor Party Congress since its earliest days had attracted so little attention, that even a small conference of rebellious Conservatives like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
Timed to counteract this impression in London and Paris while pact bargaining hangs fire, its first complete census figures since 1926 were published by the Soviet Government last week. They showed a population for the whole Soviet Union of 170,467,186 (a gain of 23,500,000 since were counted in 1926). Exulted Pravda: The percent of population growth not surpassed by any other country. Its estimates: U. S. 11%; Italy 9%; Germany 7%; Britain 5%; France 2.7%. Exulted Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population...