Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving the blockade ashore, it released naval vessels for operations elsewhere-operations for which the Russo-Japanese Pact was presumably a paver...
...Most important of all, the coast drive was intended to shake Chungking into a receptive mood for a peace drive. Chungking morale was already badly shaken by the Pact (TIME, April 28). One of its first visible effects in Chungking had been the withdrawal of 26 out of 37 Russian military advisers-showing the worth of Moscow's protestations that the Pact would not affect Soviet aid to China...
...absent, as usual, with a cold. The Foreign Minister was subjected to what the Japanese press called "sincere and cautious questions" by Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Guardian of Imperial Rule, and by Justice Minister Lieut. General Heisuke Yanagawa. They asked about the implications of the Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact and about "thought problems at home...
...thought problems was that of Communism. General Yanagawa observed that Japanese Communists were raising their heads again and felt that this problem was made no easier by the publication of photographs of Mr. Matsuoka and Mr. Stalin arm in arm. What criticism, if any, the Ministers made of the pact was not disclosed, but the newspaper Hochi had some very pertinent things...
Hochi published a list of five demands on Russia to reinforce the pact, most important of which was the demand that Russia stop helping China's Chiang Kaishek. Russia, said Hochi, was merely continuing to adhere to "the utilitarian policy of waiting for Japan, Germany and Italy to become exhausted in order to fish in troubled waters...