Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers of the Leftist Army, to each of whom is attached a "political commissar" as in the Russian Army, appeared in court accompanied by their commissars as witnesses for the State. Officers and commissars testified that in 1937 Poum soldiers on the Huesca front had for some time a "pact of nonaggression'' with the Rightist soldiers facing them, that a Leftist staff officer who "denounced such trafficking with the enemy" was found murdered in a ditch...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Wed. 4:20 p. m. NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS), in his first radio speech since the signing of the Munich Pact, addresses London's annual Lord Mayor's banquet...
Taking the negative on the question, "Resolved: That this house approves the Munich Pact," the Bellboys won a unanimous decision from the judges. A post-debate vote revealed that the audience disapproved of the pact by a two to one margin...
...defending the Four-Power Pact the Funsters stated that Hitler was not bluffing about his intention of annexing the Sutdeten area, that the democracies didn't have the will to fight, that a manifest injustice was remedied by the Munich settlement, and that German demands are now satisfied. Rendigs T. Fels '39 and Ralph L. Gustin, Jr., '40 completed the Dunster roster...
...next contest in the series will be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room with the Bellboys under the leadership of William Y. Elliott, professor of Government attacking the Munich Pact, the Dunster speakers, under Joseph A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics, will uphold it. A vigorous cross-examination by the audience is anticipated...