Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bonnet's role in the negotiations that led to the historic Munich Pact pleased the British Government, the French industrialists, who are among his chief supporters, and the Nazis, but displeased anti-appeasers everywhere. He talked big about France keeping her alliances, but acted differently. He held up a crucial message from President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia to Premier Daladier. In forwarding to the British Cabinet a French Army resume he was said to have censored it so that the weaknesses and not the strength of the French Army were emphasized...
...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...
...France will go Spanish oranges, Spanish Moroccan iron ore, pyrites, mercury, lead, zinc. In exchange Spain will get French Moroccan wheat, phosphates, barley, manufactured goods. The trade, expected to reach a volume valued at 650,000,000 francs in a few months, will be balanced. A British-Spanish trade pact providing for much greater trade is expected to follow. With that concluded, Spain's commerce will return to the prewar trade status and Generalissimo Franco's Government, despite its ideological sympathies with the Nazis, will find its commercial interests with the Allies...
...Soviet Pact of August 23 and the European War have changed the whole atmosphere of American cultural life" and have caused American authors of the left "tremendous confusion and disunity," according to Granville Hicks '23, former counsellor in American History and one-time member of the Communist Party...
Hicks described the complete "disillusionment with the Soviet Union" which radical authors had received following the signing of the pact with Germany, and later, during the question period, told why he resigned from the Communist Party this fall...