Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese blessed with farsightedness saw things abroad to make them lose their heads in graver ways. They saw that Japan had been treated to the short end of the Axis, that the three-way pact had tremendous advantages for Germany and Italy, but that it merely brought Japan new wrath from the U. S. and renewed suspicion from Russia. To Winston Churchill the pact was so weighted against Japan that he wondered "whether there are not some secret clauses." Besides this lopsided pact, there were specific threats...
...measure was not automatic at the start of the war. To date, all regiments have been quickly filled by volunteers, most of whom are itching to be shipped overseas where they can join in the Battle of Britain alongside of their English cousins. I think the mutual defense pact between the U. S. and Canada is a wonderful thing, but I do not confuse it with the idea that we might soon become part of the U. S. Your excellent article on Canada, published in TIME a few weeks ago, accurately outlined our stand between England...
Next speaker to take the stump was sleepy-eyed Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye himself. Said he: "Should the United States refuse to understand the real intention of Japan, Germany and Italy, and persist in challenging them in the belief that the pact among them represents a hostile action, there will be no other course open to them than...
Last week, day before Japan threw a scare at the U. S. by signing a pact with Berlin, President Roosevelt struck a blow at Japan. He prohibited the export after Oct. 15 of all U. S. steel scrap, except to Great Britain (now U. S. scrap customer No. 1) and countries of the Western Hemisphere (which means Canada). But Japan depends on the U. S. for practically all of her scrap, is U. S. scrap customer No. 2 at present. The embargo, as the Japs knew, was aimed at them...
...seven generals for high treason, presumably with the Germans. J'Accuse! may be an offensive-defense from the left against mouthing charges that the Popular Front was responsible for lowering French plane production to 38 planes a month in 1937; that after the signing of the Berlin-Moscow pact French Communists sullenly sabotaged the defense industry; that the battalion of Communists in General Corap's Ninth Army caused the German break-through by turning tail as soon as the Nazis appeared...