Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council.) Sir Robert had a hand in all the steps that led to Britain's isolation: the knifing of Locarno (when Britain would not support France against the German occupation of the Rhineland); the Anglo-German Naval Pact of 1935 (when Britain made a deal behind France's back); the Hoare-Laval deal over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British and French alliance (when Britain...
...machinists, having meanwhile struck and won an hourly wage of $1.15 in other San Francisco machine shops, moved against the shipyards, demanding the same rate. The shipyards logically argued that they had agreed in the master pact to pay $1.12 and could not pay more if they wanted to, without violating their contract with OPM. But the machinists particularly wanted to force Bethlehem to sign the master agreement. They struck. Out with them went C.I.O. machinists from the other side of the Bay. Picket lines stopped other, nonstriking craftsmen, and eleven Bay yards were tight shut...
Local and national A.F. of L. officers deplored and denounced the walkout, C.I.O. officials looked around for a formula to get their men back to work. As depressed as anyone were officials of OPM, who had proudly fathered the shipbuilding pact on the West Coast, considered it ideal, were in the midst of trying to father others like it in the Great Lakes, the Gulf and the East...
...peace pact with Yugoslavia, the day before German troops moved in, and Soviet petulance at the occupation of Bulgaria had shown Russia's attitude toward Hitler's drive into the Balkans. Last week, with the Germans pressing in on the Dardanelles and the Middle East in a ferment, Stalin seemed preparing to make the best deal he could to get something out of the grab bag for Russia. If this scheme succeeds, his will be the glory. If it fails, Molotov will be the goat...
...Part of the pact by which Stalin has assured his safety-for the time being-is that the Communist Party in America shall be used to foment strikes and trouble when Hitler gives the word. ... A few armed Nazi agents slipped into a crew of strikebreakers and a few Red agitators among the strikers . . . could produce an incident that might have grave national importance...