Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after each new conquest, that henceforth he would behave? Of some 20 major agreements concluded between Soviet Russia and the U.S., Moscow has broken nearly all (except the military wartime agreements), from the settlement establishing diplomatic relations (wherein Moscow promised to stop supporting U.S. Communism) down to the Potsdam pact (wherein Moscow promised to treat Germany as an economic unit...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...
...Five nations-France, Britain and the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg)-had signed at Brussels a 50-year mutual assistance pact, with emphasis on a military alliance. Last week the five defense ministers met in London, established a permanent five-power military committee, pondered common defense problems...
...London, delegates to a six-power conference (the Brussels-pact nations and the U.S.) discussed a government for Western Germany...
...cagey in his dealings with Germany. At Hendaye, France, in the fall of 1940, he talked with Hitler for nine hours in the Führer's private car, "each entranced talker explaining himself in heedless stretches, recognizing no interruption or answer." Hitler thought he had sealed a pact; Feis shows that Franco had come to "seal a vacuum." A few days later Hitler told Mussolini that "rather than have the conversation over again, he would prefer to have three or four teeth pulled out." Franco soon decided that Spain should stay out of the war and get what...