Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aggression Pact. The Oslo Powers' replies made Herr Hitler's score of pact-seeking: four acceptances (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark) and four rejections (The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland). None of these acceptances or rejections, however, held anything like the importance of a pact-signing that took place in Berlin early this week. There Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop put their names to a ten-year treaty which seemed to outsiders not so much a pact of non-aggression as one of aggression...
...Council, holding its 105th meeting, was confronted with only minor or dead problems. Real doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
Biggest South American guessing game last week was based on the questions: Is Dictator German Busch a fascist or a democratic dictator? Will Bolivia join the Anti-Comintern Pact? First guesses from Rome and Tokyo looked rosy for fascists...
...adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer...
...form. Once, for instance, he threw diplomatic minnesingers off key by proposing-at a disarmament conference of all places-complete disarmament. At a fatuous session of the League of Nations he congratulated the Assembly for "your decisive step backwards." Of the now many times violated Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact he said: "Nothing will come of it." But Soviet Russia signed...