Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shades of the car were drawn and Europe's two domineering dictators, onetime partners in aggression, who swore less than a year ago a rigid "pact of iron" to stand together in war as well as peace, sat down to talk for two hours and twelve minutes. Then, after a cordial good-by-Mussolini smiling, Hitler pale-they hurried back to their capitals...
...their weakness the Scandinavian States began to grope for the strength of unity. In Helsinki Foreign Minister Väinö A. Tanner announced that even while peace negotiations had been going on, Finland had broached to Sweden and Norway the subject of a mutual defense pact. Denmark had been left out because the country was obviously indefensible...
Sweden and Norway were interested. Sweden's Foreign Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have...
...last week Yakichiro Suma, the positive little spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, told newspapermen that relations with Russia were very nice, thank you. "For the moment," he admitted, "a non-aggression pact is not a part of our program." Two days later Russia and Japan were on the verge...
MOSCOW--The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet today ratified the Soviet-Finnish peace pact which ended their three-and-one-half months...