Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matin, divorced husband of pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight years ago Henry de Jouvenel predicted that 1935 would find Europe on the brink of another...
Ensued no great hunt but an extremely vital three-power conference on the situation created when Soviet Russia made a pact with the Czechoslovak Republic under which, if Russia is attacked, Red planes will be able to operate from Czech bases within striking distance of Germany and Poland (TIME, May 27). The Rominten conference last week was tentative and ultra hush-hush, but Eastern European wiseacres assumed that on the fire was a German-Polish-Hungarian air pact sure to enrage Moscow and of fateful significance in Vienna, where Austria's government keeps wondering just how long it will...
...clouds gathered, the World Court announced the resignation from its bench this week of ailing Judge Frank Billings ("Nervous Nellie") Kellogg who was U. S. Secretary of State when he and the late great Aristide Briand persuaded virtually every nation in the world to underwrite their Peace Pact renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
This week the unusually well-informed London Correspondent Augur* insisted that at Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments...
...battle of Press v. Radio, the latter has lately seemed to be gaining ground. On one front the Press-Radio pact, designed to put Radio on a starvation diet of newscasts, virtually broke down last spring. Last July, on another front, Editor & Publisher took its first calm view of newspaper-owned radio stations, advised publishers not to be caught napping if and when new wavelengths are available...