Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German officers who during the World War served under Ludendorff and Hindenburg. Last week Colonel E. Ott, Military Attache of the German Embassy at Tokyo, had come to Shanghai and was perspiringly explaining to vexed Japanese staff officers how it happens that Adolf Hitler, friend and pact-maker against Communism with Japan though he is (see p. 23), has not pulled out from under the Chinese General Staff its German advisers...
...behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy into the anti-Comin-tern Pact of Germany and Japan under the clause which permits any country to join them. If Italy was going to join she had to have something special, and this was what last week Premier Mussolini insisted upon...
...document signed by Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, by Japanese Ambassador Masaaki Hotta and by German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week declares that "Italy will be considered an original signatory of the pact" between Japan and Germany, although it was signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
This meant that Russia had balked completely at adopting the plan the others were ready to adopt, and dispatches excitedly rumored that at this point Britain, France, Germany and Italy would act in the spirit of their Four-Power Pact signed in 1933 and settle the question without Russia. Just arrived in London from Rome, where he had conferred at length with Premier Mussolini, was the German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, chief confidant of the Führer on foreign affairs. He surprised the Nonintervention Committee by declaring that Germany demanded it act in unanimity-that is, fail...
...would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy-exactly the team Benito Mussolini has been trying to get going ever since he got its members to sign his Four Power Pact (TIME, June 19. 1933. et ante). Admiral Horthy, with a fine patriotic eastern European sense of the comparative unimportance of Asia and the Americas, picturesquely suggested that the Asiatic League, the American League and the European League should each have its head office in Geneva. Adept at talking big themselves, Hungarians relished their...