Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week, Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky was all over the place. Short, garrulous, dapper in his white suit, white shirt, white shoes, he was trying to make up in two days for his two years of isolation after the Hitler-Stalin pact-and doing a good...
...party announced the new party line: dropping the anti-war campaign, favoring aid to Britain, lend-lease help to Russia, higher wages, the right to strike, organization of the unorganized-in short, a return to the Popular Front that the Communists junked when the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact was signed. Said Comrade William Z. (for nothing) Foster: "A victory for Russia will enormously strengthen democracy throughout the world." A Russian victory would strengthen U.S. Communists. But a Soviet defeat, which was far more probable, might leave U.S. Communists not only men without a country but men without a creed...
When the Russo-German war actually came, doomed country or not, Japan was forced to face the fact that her ambiguous diplomacy had put her on an ambiguous spot. By the Tripartite Pact she was bound to go to Germany's assistance, if Germany were attacked. By the neutrality agreement with Moscow, she must remain neutral if Russia were attacked. So if she remained neutral, Germany was the aggressor-an ugly thing for a nation to admit about its friend in public...
...Push a mutual defense pact with Mexico...
...Signed a non-aggression pact with Germany...