Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change to BRITISH FEAR WAR IN AFRICA...
Last week this classic case of a hot-house industry was desperately trying to forestall a tariff cut in connection with the proposed reciprocal trade pact with France. Pleading in Washington before a special tariff committee which acts as a buffer between irate industrialists and State Department negotiators. President Hugo N. Schloss of the American Lace Manufacturers Association solemnly asserted: "I have endeavored to demonstrate to your committee that the machinery of the lace manufacturing industry is a potential arm of the national defense." President Schloss's point was that lace machinery can be used to weave mosquito netting...
...Takahashi asserted, recalling that for months Government issues have labored under the nicknames "deficit bonds" and "red ink bonds." As an example of how the Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular...
...Britain's navy must be kept in far corners of the world that Adolf Hitler is actually demanding naval parity with the force His Majesty's Government can normally deploy in the North Sea. The great thing, many Britons felt, was that a direct and friendly naval pact with Germany ought to go a long way to keep Adolf Hitler from wanting to build a superior navy by stealth and subterfuge in Germany, as he is rapidly building a superior air force...
American Policy should be formulated in terms of American interests and not in terms of vague principles of international equity and justice. We must recognize that Japan has scrapped the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact and the Washington Conference Treaties. It is useless to labor over rotting carcasses...