Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before, the Pact that ended the five-week Syrian War had been merely initialed by Vichy's Brigadier General Joseph Antoine Sylvain Râoul de Verdillac, who went to Acre in Palestine for the armistice talks* held in the officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought...
...last year a brainy, bespectacled ousted leader of Britain's Labor Party became a missionary. Just back from a round-the-world trip with long stopovers in Russia and Free China, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was convinced that despite the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Russia might yet be Britain's ally in World War II. His mission: to go to Moscow and help bring this about...
...treaty of friendship, the Pact stated tersely that the two countries would support each other "in the present war against Hitlerite Germany," that neither would make a separate peace...
...another diplomat in waiting, a Russian, the Pact was equally good news. He was onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, once No. 1 sales man of Russia's United Front. For a decade he held forth at Geneva, talking for collective security and against Fascism, was waved to the sidelines in 1939 when Russia changed her tactics, began her appeasement play for time...
...Notes were sent by Japan to Germany and Russia, both of them brothers in friendship by solemn covenant and pact...