Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BUDAPEST--Hungary today smashed its own Nazis in a nationwide raid and a few hours later formally joined Germany, Italy and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact...
...time the chief seller of goods to Soviet Russia and. although trade between the two countries is gradually drying up, as late as 1937 15% of Russia's imports came from Germany. Last week the Soviet Union made a new pocketbook deal with Italy, where the Anti-Comintern pact originated. Under a barter arrangement, trade between the two nations is expected to hit $52,675,000 annually, almost two and a half times the volume provided by their last commercial accord, which was interrupted two years...
China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...
...Italy 20 years before in return for Italy's joining the Allies. But the concessions were never made because Foreign Minister Laval was booted out and Parliament refused to ratify his dealings with II Duce. Last week II Duce took occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian...
...this awakening is the result of the Munich pact and all it symbolizes, as doubtless to a large extent it is, then Munich was a blessing in disguise. But there is still one more hurdle for the President and the people to face: the traditionally isolationist United States Senate. During the next few months the issue will be clearly and dramatically posed through the new rearmament demands and proposed revision of the neutrality laws. Even while the President was speaking, destructive opposition was forming; one can almost hear the Congressional hand-organs beginning to grind out "entanglement," "George Washington...