Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a prime strategist of the war on the Whites. He has been an active Commander of the Leningrad, Moscow and Volga military districts, Chief of Staff, head of the Frunze Military Academy (Soviet West Point), and he joined Comrade Stalin at the signing of the Russo-German Pact (see cut). But his reputation has always been technical, bolstered by his authorship of several volumes of military history and strategy...
...campaign, Nazi pressure on Turkey has increased notch by notch, with troop concentrations in Bulgaria, fortification of islands in the Aegean off the Turkish coast, increasing activity of Nazi agents behind Turkey's back (particularly in Iran). Economic pressure, too, has steadily risen since the German-Turkish trade pact was signed in June...
Suddenly last weekend the pressure slackened. For no announced reason the Germans canceled a visit by Economist Karl Clodius, who was scheduled to go to Ankara to negotiate a ?25,000,000 trade pact. Best guess was that the pressure would stay off Turkey until the Germans made a stronger showing in Russia...
Russian diplomats last week were in a scurry, trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...
When noses were counted it was observed that the new Cabinet contained three fewer noses than the old. Conspicuously missing was the slightly bulbous nose of Yosuke Matsuoka, who as Foreign Minister had promoted the Triple Alliance with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia. It was evident that one object of the Cabinet change was to squeeze out Mr. Matsuoka...