Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two years there have been few moments when Franklin Roosevelt could pity either Stalin or Hitler. But that Sunday morning he could pity Stalin who had started the war by signing a pact which he thought would keep Russia safe...
With Russia's Armies defeated, Germany could turn all her power against the British Isles. With Russia conquered, Turkey would be gobbled up (and last week's attack on Russia was preceded by a Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Turkey); the entire Middle East and India would be opened to German attack; not only Suez, but Africa, would be flanked; China would be surrounded; the seas would be opened (assuming the fall of Suez and Gibraltar) to combined Axis Fleets greater than the combined U.S. and British Navies; the Western Hemisphere would be encircled by enemies...
...irony of the new attack was that smart Joseph Stalin had outsmarted himself. Russia, whose pact with Germany enabled Hitler to start the war, now felt the full fury of the war. Adolf Hitler's proclamation was full of accusation of Russian double-dealing and Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov retorted in kind. The accusations were unimportant. In the charges of neither side was there even a tone of surprise. They had never trusted each other. In the timetable of German-Russian relations since the Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 (see col. 3) could...
...attacking Russia when my aims in the West have been achieved. . . . We must win the victory of German race-consciousness over the masses eternally fated to serve and obey. We alone can conquer the great continental space, and it will be done by us alone, not through a pact with Moscow. We shall take this struggle upon us. It will open to us the door to permanent mastery of the world...
Japanese militarists smacked their lips over the information that the French Indo-China Government was building a "commercial" seaplane base eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace...