Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany signs 25-year nonaggression pacts with France and Belgium and a similar pact with Lithuania. This week the Lithuanian Government, which has feared immediate German attack any day, fairly scrambled in an effort to get Adolf Hitler's signature on this pledge at once...
...Peace Pact Possible...
Blum for Premier? To Léon Blum there was never any question but that the Franco-Soviet Pact must be ratified-even with the dangers of touching off hair-trigger Nazis, incurring possible rupture of the Locarno Pact, and entering the bear-like embrace of Bolshevik Russians. His Socialist spirit is fixed with religious fanaticism; he hates Nazis as they can only be hated by one who is a Socialist, a Frenchman and a Jew; and he hopes with something like passionate prophecy that French voters next April will for the first time give French Socialism a clear mandate...
...Frenchmen the person and program of Léon Blum are so "abominable" that they can think of no other in France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...
...strengthening herself militarily; economically; politically. Ten years and she would leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog, ready to rend from her her very life, or, if that were impossible, as much as she could safely tear off and carry away. The non-aggression pact would see the fate of many another treaty which has become inconvenient to German aspirations and intolerable to the German General Staff...