Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the trip of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Berlin, the sending of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, engaging Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to "spy" on Soviet and German air power, the Munich Pact...
...United States, the Export-Import Bank's advance of nearly twenty million dollars of acceptance credit will provide exchange to pay American exporters for unpaid merchandise. Moreover, the large amount of government aid will tend to encourage new American capital investments in Brazil. The pact marks an important step in the development of free trade relations between North and South American countries...
...important consequences may follow from this agreement. Close economic ties with Brazil may result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom...
...Since the Munich pact, French and British resistance has stiffened" Marx said. "I do not doubt that Germany realizes clearly that a serious move towards Objectives regarded as vital for France or Britain would make a second World War inevitable...
...Roosevelt will participate in the meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...