Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema theatres up & down the United Kingdom newsreels showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference...
Little Belgium. The last thing most subjects of King Edward had been in a mood to do was to read the obligations shouldered by His Majesty's Government when they signed and Britain's Parliament ratified the Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British...
...hrer's slugging last week consisted of a body blow to the already groggy Treaty of Versailles and a below-the-belt punch at the Locarno Pact, which was not in any sense imposed on Germany by the victorious Allies but freely entered into by the Fatherland...
...spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
Honor, Faith, God. These tremendous, slugging blows by Adolf Hitler were of a complicated nature, but with them he also provided sugar-cookies for the slugged. These he announced as German offers: 1) to make several kinds of peace pacts with virtually all European States, including an air pact in which England might join; 2) to establish with France and Belgium wholly new demilitarized zones; 3) even to lead Germany back into the League of Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would...