Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's friends, Greece and Turkey, remained Britain's friends-but this week Turkey and Bulgaria signed a non-aggression pact, indicating that Turkey's belligerence, if it came, would be entirely defensive. Greece, with no other friend than Britain, still showed no signs of acceding to reported German pressure for a separate Greek-Italian peace...
...break between Japan and the U. S., said he, Russia would be taken care of by "prompt and effective steps." Talky Yosuke Matsuoka went on to explain that Japan's opposition to the extension of Communism in China had been an obstacle to a non-aggression pact with Russia, left his listeners to infer that if the U. S. got tough, Japan would give in on this point. In Moscow Japan's new Ambassador...
After the picnic the Locarno chill thawed into the mellow "Spirit of Locarno." A peace pact was initialed, with Benito Mussolini rushing up to sign at the last moment. Amid worldwide optimistic hopes for a New Era, too little attention was paid to what such then uncensored German papers as the famed Berliner Tage-blatt had to say: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated . . . has . . . become a factor of might once more...
...Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small yacht, stocked it with international delicacies, and during one long afternoon the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Germany and France relaxed on the placid bosom...
...line that helped greatly when Britain closed the Burma Road last year-the 3,100-mile rail and caravan route from Vladivostok to Chita and Lanchow. But last week Soviet Russia and Japan sat down to negotiate a trade treaty-which might lead to the long-prophesied non-aggression pact and the closing of Vladivostok to supplies for China...