Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's tin industry. By the end of the 1920's he was master of a $165,000,000 group of British companies, mainspring of the potent International Tin Committee and a power in Empire affairs. The tin restriction plans which were incorporated in an international pact signed at The Hague in 1931 originated with an unsuccessful Howeson tin pool, which was stuck with embarrassing stocks of the metal in a declining market. Result was that the price of tin is now a matter of British Government policy and a stench in the nostrils...
...months ago the U. S. joined Canada, the Irish Free State and Great Britain in a pact for joint operation of airlines across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week the U. S. made a similar agreement with Germany. Conclusions...
...most intelligent opposition that has yet been offered to the Franco-Soviet Pact of mutual assistance was presented in the French Chamber last Tuesday by M. Taittinger of the Nationalist wing. He argued that France might be dragged into a war with Germany as a result of it and that the signing of the pact would be followed by fresh demands for financial assistance, even though past Russian debts were still unpaid. He also advanced the opinion that nothing should be done to irritate Germany at a time when peace was of such paramount importance...
Distrust of Soviet Russia has been steadily increasing in official Parisian circles and many political leaders are gradually realizing that the road to peace is not fringed by a dense shrubbery of so called "defensive" mutual assistance pacts. The World War gave ample proof that defensive alliances with the resulting struggles for a balance of power were disastrous, and that such actions inevitably led to war. M. Xavier Vallett, another Nationalist deputy, speaking shortly after M. Taittinger, said that he opposed the pact because if would lead Germany to believe that she was being encircled. Such sentiments are truly encouraging...
...this time the Army officers had elaborated their policy and sent to George II an "oral manifesto." This warned His Majesty not to dare to grant amnesty to pro-Venizelos officers chased out of Greece during the last Revolution. Obviously the King was suspected of being in a secret pact with M. Venizelos to bring the "Great Exile" back to Greece and make him Premier for the ninth time. Although no doubt willing to sell out for a reasonable price and string along with this arrangement, the Army and Air Force officers last week closed by menacingly informing His Majesty...