Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate and sent to conference was the Ramspeck Bill, which permits the President to fold into the Civil Service system approximately 200,000 Government employes through noncompetitive examinations. Congressmen were beginning to see some hope of adjournment when, at week's end, came news of the Axis-Japan pact...
...President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only distinction was that they were coming more rapidly than in the past, U. S. citizens read that Japan, Germany, Italy had signed a ten-year pact to protect the "new order" in Europe and Asia, to pledge mutual assistance in case another power (i.e., the U. S.) became involved in the European or Asiatic...
From the standpoint of power politics the pact amounted to raising the ante in the hope of frightening the U. S. into dropping its hand so the Axis could rake in the pot. But if the Axis hoped to frighten the U. S. out of its everything-short-of-war policy of helping Great Britain, it had almost certainly failed. Since U. S. security in the Atlantic - hence liberty to maintain her Fleet in the Pacific-depends on the British Fleet, the U. S. could now do no less than help Britain more...
...Like the Abbe Sieyes who was asked what he had done in the Great French Revolution, Sir Samuel could faithfully reply: 'I kept alive.' " Hoare's record includes negotiating, without the knowledge of the French, the British-German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out in the Hoare-Laval agreement. In fact, "as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare passed from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
...After the Nazi-Soviet pact orders from the Moscow Comintern made it the duty of Communists in every nation "to work for the collapse of resistance to Fascism in the interest of the Russian State, at whatever cost ... to themselves...