Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formally lining up Spain in their anti-Comintern Pact last fortnight, Italy and Germany welded an iron ring around France. Last week France and her ally, Britain, struck back by beginning at long last to forge an even bigger one around the Axis powers. Europe had not been so close to a general war since an armistice was declared to the last one, November...
...Austria on the north, Fascist Albania on the south, and an Italian sea, the Adriatic, on the west. To make the picture complete, dissatisfied little Bulgaria, most defeated of Germany's World War allies, lies on the east. When Britain hastily suggested that Yugoslavia join the anti-aggression pact there came only stony silence from Belgrade. The Yugoslav Government dared do nothing to offend its powerful neighbors...
Signer. Even in western Europe it was aggressors' week. At Burgos it was announced that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had definitely thrown in his lot with the Dictators: had signed up with Germany, Italy, Hungary and Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact. For the French Government this was a severe defeat. Before recognizing Franco's Government France had tried to get a promise that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover...
...Free City on the Baltic, where Poland has large interests and investments. East Prussia had become an armed camp. Finally the Nazi Government submitted its demands: German absorption of Danzig, a German auto road across the Polish Corridor, a Polish signature on the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Comintern Pact...
...hand. Poland with a bigger population (34,000,000), bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...