Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Russia's huge oil fields in Transcaucasia, Hitler got 6,000,000 barrels in 1940, little more during the period of the Russo-German Pact. Most of Russia's 210,000,000-barrel annual production was desperately needed at home. It is for these fields that Hitler is driving, presumably because he feels that they would be more practicable for German use than those of Iran and Iraq. But, should he get them and get them intact, he would still have the problem of organizing a 2,500-mile transportation line before he could...
...what he wanted; the British 30 more years on their concession. Things were great. He began hiring German technicians to work his railroads, install his industrial plants and operate them. He detested Communism, but kept up friendly relations with Russia. Then came August 1939 and the Russo-German Pact. Things were greater. The war started. His British oil royalties waxed. Russia and Germany bought more goods and products. Nothing could harm Iran now. More & more Germans entered the country...
Neither of these sets of proposals stressed the fact that, on the record, no proposal, promise or pact of Adolf Hitler's has more meaning than jabberwocky...
...this, which might be read as critical doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...
Last week, as Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden looked benignly on, Ambassador Maisky and Poland's Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski put their names to a pact satisfactory to both countries. The treaty, under which Russia washed out the 1939 conquest but did not guarantee Poland's former boundaries, was officially approved, but many Poles found it far from agreeable. Two members of the Polish Cabinet (General Casimir Sosnkowski and Marjan Seyda) had steadfastly voted against it. Foreign Minister August Zaleski left the Cabinet before it was signed as a protest against adopting any treaty that was not unanimously...