Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central continental power of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany's occupation of the Rhineland as a casus belli; when the British Conservative Government entered a naval limitation pact with the Nazis; when Britain refused to heed France's advice to meet Russia's terms for a triple alliance in the spring of 1939. Last week the Entente, foremost factor in European power politics for 36 years, became another casualty in Hitler...
...words in Washington of visiting Major Napoleao Alencastro Guimaraes, aide to the Brazilian Minister of Transport, who pictured Brazil as lining up solidly behind the U. S. and the Monroe Doctrine. While Major Alencastro Guimaraes negotiated for railroad materials, Brazil tightened its ties with the democracies by concluding a pact permitting Britain to buy from Brazil without transfer of currency. Militarily Brazil moved closer to the U. S. as General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, urging defensive cooperation of all the Americas, called on the U. S. to lend its material and technical superiority to the task...
...Russian-German Pact...
...Fiihrer offers peace, saying "there is no longer any real reason for prolongation of the war." Oct. IQ. Allies and Turkey sign 15-year mutual assistance pact which exempts Turkey from war with Russia...
...nchez Tapia, oldtime friend of President Cárdenas and himself an independent candidate for president, took advantage of the general about-face to try to make a little hay for the Cárdenas Party. Proposing that Mexico immediately negotiate a comprehensive political-economic-military defense pact with the U. S., he also suggested that the Government candidate for President, General Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger." Unable to keep pace...