Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With regard to the existence of a secret naval pact with Britain, Jones felt that any such understanding "would have to be very informal. At the same time there is nothing in our Constitution to prevent American naval officers comparing notes with British officers about their common field of operation, which is the Pacific...
...Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...
...most desirable first step toward Prosperity, he reported, is "to bring together as soon as possible ... in ... a pact of economic collaboration . . . the principal economic powers . . . France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Italy." Not excluding the Soviet Union or Japan or China, but obviously alive to many practical difficulties, M. van Zeeland would simply make a pact "embracing the largest possible number of states, and in any case open...
...Like all human enterprises, the League of Nations has in no wise fulfilled its initial aims. We consider it our right and duty to try to bring new life to the great old League. . . . We have never doubted that the Rome Protocols are our best orientation. . . . An anti-Communist pact long has been a practical reality for Austria and Hungary...
...world consumption, which totals 30,000,000 tons per year. This is because most sugar-producing nations consume their own output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...