Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France itched to be told all inside details, and Foreign Minister Delbos immediately started last week on a 17-day swing around Eastern Europe to tell them. It was of utmost significance that he does not plan to go to Moscow, although the French Republic has a military pact with the Soviet Union (TIME, May 13, 1935). All during the London negotiations and subsequently last week, London and Paris correspondents kept hearing in the highest quarters the opinion that grave unrest is stirring in Russia; that the Soviet Union's effective strength in warfare has been greatly reduced...
...Soviet propaganda drilled into Russian workers that Iftu and its leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos and the favor...
Terms of the pact were kept rigidly secret. None of the 40,000,000 workers involved knew this week what their leaders had signed...
...quintessence of fiction in politics these days is the Undeclared War. . . . No war in Europe or Asia has been declared since the Kellogg Pact was signed in 1928. The inference is that no power quite dares to ignore it. They wage only undeclared wars-and at least the piece of parchment is inviolate. . . . No more withdrawal of ambassadors, no more neat little ultimatums expiring at midnight. Instead, calculated or swift attack. Instead, wars that aren't called wars, and peace that isn't peace. . . . There have been three undeclared wars since the year 1935 [Ethiopia, Spain, China...
Paralyzed, France sought an alliance with Russia which became a mutual assistance pact last year. Not popular with many at home, regarded with suspicion by conservative diplomats, the treaty proved to be more of a liability in French attempts to draw closer to Great Britain...