Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invitation was extended without the Government's knowledge. . . . Perplexed British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics for negotiation with Turkey presently. Likewise they regard the idea of preparing a new Mediterranean Pact now as most inopportune. . . . A simple invitation by King Edward has upset the British Foreign Office...
...from an attack of chicken pox last week, just before he went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
...Treaty is for 20 years, but Article XVI provides that it must be succeeded by a similar pact, and commentators this week called it a Treaty of Perpetual Military Alliance. Under its terms the British Royal Air Force may at all times operate over Egypt. The British Navy will have a permanent base at Alexandria for which it will pay rent to Egypt. And the Egyptians agree to build strategic roads fanning out from the British Garrison in the Suez Canal Zone so that British troops may rapidly reach any part of Egypt...
Diplomats of the Great Powers had high hopes last week of getting the Madrid Cabinet and the provisional President of its foes, General Miguel Cabanellas, to sign their solemnly drafted pact for "humanizing the Spanish Civil War," ending both Red and White atrocities. Before General Cabanellas could be heard from, new Premier Largo Caballero flatly rejected for Madrid all "humanizing," took for the Spanish Government the position that this is a fratricidal struggle so desperate that everything goes and must continue...