Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reaction was more thoughtful. The Foreign Office periodical Berlin-Rome-Tokyo published a long arti cle solemnly denying that its Axis planned to attack the U. S.. as solemnly accused the U. S. of trying to provoke an attack. "This is the hour when the Three-Power Pact of Berlin has found its renewed, final justification as a powerful instrument of common defense against aggression," wrote Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. "Whoever feels himself affected . . . has aggressive intentions. Nor does President Roosevelt make any concealment of these intentions. His only worry is that the nations of the Three-Power Pact...
Getting to work on a reorganization plan, Mr. Steere (representing the stock holders) finally made a pact with Prudential Insurance Co.'s Carrol Shanks (representing the bondholders) in March 1937. Their plan would have given C. & O. a 14% interest in the new common...
When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off. Last week the Communist Limited had just about completed the dizzy turn from the Communazi Pact to the Battle of Britain, and U. S. literary liberals were spattered all over the right of way. As the Red Express hooted off into the shades of a closing decade, ex-fellow travelers rubbed their bruises, wondered how they had ever come to get aboard. Observers wondered if they had learned enough to switch to the democratic...
After Stalin's Purge, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Russia's grab of half of Poland, 1940 betrayed the full nature of Stalin's hand with the attack on Finland, the seizure of part of Rumania, and all of the Baltic States. Fellow travelers began to jump off the train. Promptly Comrade V. J. Jerome the Party's Führer for the U. S. Intellectuals, wrote a pamphlet (Intellectuals and the War) tearing his old friends to pieces. Jerome said his erstwhile friends were just capitalist stooges anyway. They "came like arrogant slummers . . . looked upon...
...Grebanier had become fed up with the party, tried to resign, was finally expelled instead as a "Trotskyite." Today, thanks to the Moscow-Berlin pact, he told the committee, Communist membership at Brooklyn College has "dwindled to the vanishing point...