Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department concluded with Czechoslovakia a trade pact which New England shoe factories deplored, is now negotiating another with Great Britain...
...Chamberlain promised in the House of Commons this week, as he asked approval for armed forces expenditure this year of $1,758,750,000 (see p. 18). In his house at No. 10 Downing Street, meanwhile, he had given swift impetus last week to negotiations for the Four-Power Pact which Britain, Germany, France and Italy will try to make (TIME, March 7), possibly admitting Poland to make it a Fiver...
...French political groups, could not manage last week to keep the Communist, Socialist and moderate Left supporters of his Cabinet from holding their noses. But while they were doing so. he got them to swallow the general principle of British-German-French-Italian negotiation for a Four-Power Pact, envisioned by the British Prime Minister . The swallowing occurred at a session of the Chamber of Deputies which upheld Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
This did not mean that Chautemps can count on such overwhelming support in future, did not mean that the Chamber will finally ratify a Pact when negotiated. It did mean that France-feeling herself challenged by Hitler & Mussolini-had reacted with a great surge of national unity to the idea that her diplomats ("the cleverest in the world") should match their wits with Britain, Italy, Germany...
...find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany extends diplomatic recognition to the Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other's rights and interests, "even in Danzig"; 3) as to Austria...