Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, was busy inside the Chigi Palace (Foreign Office) signing the Mussolini-Chamberlain pact, text of which came out fortnight ago, with the British Ambassador Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was for 14 years Secretary General to the League of Nations. Unheralded, there was also signed at the same time last week, by Count Ciano, Lord Perth and Egyptian Minister Mustafa El-Sadek Bey, an Italo-British-Egyptian "good-neighbor pact...
...signing, Premier Mussolini and Prime Minister Chamberlain exchanged cablegrams of warmest friendship and at the U. S. State Department experts said that a long step had been taken toward blocking another European war, laying the foundation for ultimately drawing Britain, Germany, Italy and France into a Four-Power Peace Pact...
...public indication that, like his father, King Fuad, he is ready to play ball with the British. Fear of Mussolini has of late become real in Egypt and the main declaration of Farouk's message was to place Egypt squarely behind Prime Minister Chamberlain and the British-Italian pact signed last week in Rome (see p. 16). Egyptian delegates attended the Rome conferences. "The Anglo-Italian agreement," declared Farouk, "is the surest guarantee of peace...
...Soviet Government," said Maxim Litvinoff, "being cognizant . . . of its obligations under the League Covenant and the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and under the treaties of mutual assistance concluded with France and Czechoslovakia . . . is ready . . . to participate in collective actions that would be decided upon jointly with it and that would aim at checking the further development of aggression and at eliminating an aggravated danger of a new world massacre." I.e., Commissar Litvinoff was not offering direct, immediate Soviet aid in case of need to Czechoslovakia, such as Moscow sent to Madrid...
...longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been a believer in making a Four-Power Pact between Britain, Germany, France and Italy as a first step toward "The United States of Europe," proposed at Geneva by France's greatest Man of Peace, the late Aristide Briand (TIME, Sept...