Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing anything, but whatever the risk Admiral Nagano was resolved to run it. First...
...embargo exports of arms but also optional authority to embargo exports of all materials essential to war. More important, it would give the President power to lift embargoes in favor of nations which are the victims of aggression, provided a) that the majority of the nonbelligerent nations signing the Pact of Paris agreed who was the aggressor and, b) that Congress approved...
Hitler tantrums are unbelievable until experienced and therefore easy to deny with a show of conviction. Der Führer, in effect, bawled: "No air pact until Germany regains her colonies! No air pact until the lie of German War guilt is wiped from the Treaty of Versailles! No air pact until our air force is stronger than any other in Europe!!!" Tidying up after Hitler, professional diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse attempted to be smooth. Germany, they said, might enter an air pact with Britain, provided no other country was admitted. Such a proposal was an example of the classic...
...Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan was of course M. Laval's high-sign last week to Italians that he is still secretly working his hardest to obtain the "free hand in Ethiopia'' he promised Benito Mussolini at the time of the Franco-Italian Pact (TIME...
...method in supporting the Constitution and the Kellogg Pact, Dr. Mather wrote in his intention of continuing on the advisory board of the American. Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union...