Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier, revealed again the peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians agreed last week, was characteristically peasant-shrewd...
...Wheat sank 5? per bu. to the lowest price this season, 81¼?. Cotton dropped under 11? per lb. Sugar lost most of its recent gains in the wildest trading in a decade, and Cuban sugar securities nose-dived on the fear that the island's reciprocal trade pact might be annulled as an unconstitutional delegation of the Senate's treaty-making powers. And with all codes and coercion swept from the U. S. Business structure, endless readjustments were obviously in order. What those readjustments would be and where they would occur was businessmen's prime concern...
...Germany will observe all treaties now in force, even those signed by previous Socialist German governments. Particularly, she will observe the Locarno Pact (as long as the other signatories do) and the prohibitions against fortifying the Rhineland...
...Germany will sign an international air pact to supplement the Locarno Treaty...
...over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that both Germany and Poland have unsettled quarrels with...