Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verbal rambles Sir John said Hitler told him at Berlin that Germany would join a pact of mutual non-aggression but not a pact pledging mutual assistance against an aggressor such as the proposed Eastern Locarno (TIME, Feb. 18). At this the Latins cut in last week with questions. How did Hitler feel, they asked, about a pact in which Germany would join other States in pledging non-aggression only, while the other States further pledged mutual aid to resist aggression...
...Wreck. This meant that European diplomacy could set off again on its scrap-of-paper strewn hunt for the pact to end pacts. With such proceedings, Dictator Mussolini has small sympathy, but he and French Premier Flandin preferred to wind up the Stresa Conference handsomely and save everything possible from the wreck...
...nearest thing to making a commitment, MacDonald & Simon joined Mussolini in solemnly reaffirming the obligations of Britain and Italy as guarantors of the original (Western) Locarno Pact, supposed to nail down the frontiers of Germany, Belgium and France (TIME...
...Russian Foreign Minister, realistic as ever, prefers an alliance providing for instant mobilization of both French and Soviet armies in the event of provocative action on the part of Germany. The French government, however, faithful as ever to its patient at Geneva, has insisted mulishly that in the pact the spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations be kept intact, and seems to have won its point...
...which Italy received a 3,000-share interest by the Laval-Mussolini pact (TIME...