Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect Chancellor Schuschnigg's visit to Paris, whence he would next visit London, was a sort of vital symbol last week of the Great Powers' will to prevent Austria from being absorbed into Nazidom. This will was formally recorded at Rome in the pact of Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France...
Eastern Locarno: Germany is invited to participate in a "general settlement" embracing i) Germany's return to the League of Nations; 2) Germany's adherence to an Eastern Locarno Pact to prevent aggression in either direction across Germany's eastern frontiers; 3) acceptance by the Great Powers of Germany's present degree of rearmament even though it flatly violates the Treaty of Versailles...
...Pact: The Fatherland is invited to join Britain, France, Italy and Belgium in a pact to "undertake immediately to give the assistance of their air forces to whichever of them might be the victim of unprovoked aerial aggression...
...German Government," cooed Adolf Hitler, "welcomes the spirit of trustful discussion" invoked by France and Britain. With masterly omission, he ignored the Eastern Locarno and the Austrian pacts. With sure intuition, the Little Man grown big sensed that he might insert discord between Britain and France by accepting, only that part of their declaration upon which John Bull sets most store: the Air Pact against unprovoked aerial aggression. Accepting this "in principle," the Realmleader declared that his Government "is therefore willing to seek, in free accord with the powers concerned, ways and means by which such a convention...
...Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered...