Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cried: "Was that an extraordinary demonstration of human knowledge . . . when he telephoned Hitler and Mussolini and urged them to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river?" Aides hastened to explain. Mr. Willkie had "misspoken," had meant to say that Mr. Roosevelt had urged a settlement at Munich and the Munich pact "agreed to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river...
...Russian-German trade pact...
...Candidate Willkie in joint debate ("He is President of the United States, but it is equally true that he is running for a Third Term. . . ."); for nonetheless finding time to arrange three speeches in the South next Labor Day; for being secretive about the new U. S.-Canadian defense pact's terms...
Agreement. Thus the U. S. was linked for defense in informal agreement but not by pact with Canada. It was a logical culmination of the policy expressed by the President at Kingston, Ontario, two years ago: "The people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire." It was an inclusion of Canada within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine, especially as the doctrine was broadened to include military agreements at the Havana Conference. The U. S. had set up a defense board with a country at war. Whether...
Canada. Another place where the U. S. could act was Canada. Last week the New York Herald Tribune made another proposal: that Canada and the U. S. sign a pact of mutual defense. Its argument: the U. S. could make such a treaty without U. S. involvement in World War II; staff talks could be started; a North Atlantic base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly...