Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, the wishing hour of mystic Adolf Hitler, four men sat down to scribble the future on four copies of a pact. By their penmanship the kingless kingdom of Hungary joined the three-way pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on Sept...
...week's crop of eager joiners would probably not be the last. These were no surprise candidates. Hungary has long been the steadfast sycophant of Germany. She was the first to climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area...
...signing up, the three countries became mere limbs of the Axis. They were in no sense coequal with the three leaders. Hungary did not sign Rumania's pact, Rumania did not sign Slovakia's. After all had joined, the master pact was still referred to as the Tripartite Pact...
Joseph Stalin last week gave two specific clues to his choice. Alexander Shkhvartzev, who was named Ambassador to Berlin at the time of the German-Russian Pact, was replaced by V. G. Dekanozov. Dekanozov was formerly Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and accompanied Mr. Molotov to Berlin. When United Press quoted Hamburger Fremdenblatt to the effect that Hungary's adhesion to the Axis was reached "with the cooperation and full authority of Russia," official Tass announced sharply: "This report does not correspond with the facts in any extent...
...days well-informed German private sources and unofficial Wilhelstrasse opinion had understood that preparations had been completed for Bulgaria to sign the pact the middle of this week. The reports never were confirmed officially...