Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monday, the day on which: the Russo-German pact was announced; Italy entered the war; France laid down her arms; the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was completed...
...Japan did not know whether it was in on this latest war or not. Its attitude toward Greece would be "considered from a practical political standpoint, not in the strict literal sense." Since Albania, an Italian possession, was "attacked" by Greece, Japan dishonored her five-week-old mutual-defense pact with the Axis by not going to Italy...
...extemporaneous opening he paid his respects to Chairman Flynn, "that apostle of purity of The Bronx," and invited Candidate Roosevelt to answer three questions: 1) What did he think about a fourth term?* 2) Had he entered into any secret pact with a foreign nation? 3) How did he justify running as a liberal and reform candidate with the support of the political machines of Chicago, Jersey City and The Bronx? Reading from his manuscript, Willkie attacked Roosevelt's foreign policy, the present role...
...German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...
...quarrel grew into an ironic kettle-storm which somehow summed up all the topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression of an Eastern toyland. This week Prime...