Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four acts asked of Germany: 1) return to the League of Nations; 2) renunciation of Nazi ambitions to incorporate Austria in the Fatherland. Germany joining Britain, France and Italy in guaranteeing the independence of Austria; 3) adherence by Germany to the proposed Eastern Locarno Pact under which all nations east of the Rhine* would mutually respect and guarantee each other's present frontiers; 4) adherence by Germany to a British-French-Italian-Belgian pact to resist "unprovoked air aggression" by whatsoever nation committed. The concession: In return for the foregoing German peace acts the Great Powers offered to release...
...Warsaw eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski took calm note of the riots as fresh evidence of the unpopularity in Poland of the pro-German policy of Foreign Minister Josef Beck. It was Beck who sold to Dictator Pilsudski the ten-year Polish-German non-aggression pact of Dictator Hitler (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week Pilsudski was busy jamming through Poland's long-impotent Parliament constitutional changes making the dictatorship still more absolute. "One thing at a time!" is the crusty old Marshal's motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time...
Last Roundup. Fresh surprises cooked by Adolf Hitler were expected to be served when and if Sir John asks this week whether Germany is prepared to return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to an all-Europe pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). The British Foreign Secretary then returns to London, while the Lord Privy Seal speeds on to Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague...
...expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack pot. The game was over...
Last year he was struck with dismay when his successor, Premier Tsaldaris, concluded the Balkan Pact with Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey. Venizelos saw that Yugoslavia was bound to get into trouble with Italy and Albania, that Greece might have to fight to pull Yugoslavia's chestnuts out of the fire. He objected also to the fact that Italy had not been consulted. Himself nobody's cat's-paw, he could not help feeling that no Greek but himself could ever do anything right...