Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reds. Working at cross-purposes until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling...
...exchange of information regarding Sweden's neutrality took place a fortnight ago between representatives of the U. S. S. R. and Germany in Moscow, in conformity with Article III of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact. . . .* It was noted that both States regard themselves as interested in the preservation of Sweden's neutrality...
...Article III provides for consultation and exchange of information on matters of mutual interest. The inference was that Russia invoked the pact after the German invasion of Norway, which German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg spent four hours explaining to Foreign Commissar Molotov in Moscow (TIME, April...
Turkey, on the alert for quislings, arrested a former member of Parliament, one Siri Bellioglu, who had spent his time lobbying against the Anglo Turkish mutual-assistance pact and writing anonymous letters to ministers. Guns were mounted on the decks of passenger ships and the training period of reservists was extended to keep more men under arms...
Blasting Russia's aggression against Finland, Thomas explained that his refusal to speak on the same program with Quill was purely on the grounds of the labor leader's "tacit acceptance" of the Hitler-Stalin pact...