Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...
This week, when the press met him again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also...
After long effort we finally succeeded in securing the cooperation of Yugoslavia by its adherence to the Tripartite Pact without having demanded anything whatsoever of the Yugoslav nation except that it take its part in the reconstruction of a new order in Europe...
...German war machine was rolling before the ink was dry on the pact. But it was not likely that Messrs. Stalin and Molotov had hoped to discourage Germany from attacking Yugoslavia. They wanted merely to assure Yugoslavia that Russia would not move in to divide the swag, as it did in the case of Poland. Two weeks earlier they had given a similar assurance to Turkey. If by this means other nations could be encouraged to stand up to Germany, war would be kept away from Russia a while longer...
...visas to Nazi fifth columnists entering the Balkans disguised as tourists. Premier Teleki also obliged by letting German fighting forces and their supplies pass freely across Hungary on their way to browbeat Rumania and Bulgaria. But when he was asked to help invade Yugoslavia, with which Hungary signed a "pact of eternal friendship" only four months ago, Teleki's unrelenting conscience toppled him off his tightrope...