Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland yesterday decided to negotiate with Russia for a friendship and military pact--a step which some sources predict will bind the Scandinavian country with Soviet bloc. After two weeks of study, the Finnish cabinet decided to accept the Russian proposal for an alliance treaty, and suggested that the negotiations take place in Moscow...
Five European nations yesterday laid foundations for a Customs and Economics Union of Western Europe to resist the spread of Communism. Representatives of the countries, which include Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, predicted the pact would be ready for signature by the end of the week...
...signed a pact with the Soviet Union. "Mr. Stalin," he had said, "I have complete confidence. . . . We have signed an agreement for non-intervention in domestic affairs, and I know you will keep it." Only a few days ago, he had again summed up his faith when he told a workers' delegation (which demanded the exclusion of anti-Communist parties from the government): "I strongly deprecate the exclusion of anybody from anything...
Wrote Stalin: "I assume that Finland, not less than Rumania and Hungary, is interested in a pact of mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R. against possible German aggression. . . . Wishing to establish conditions for a radical improvement in the relations between our countries . . . the Soviet government proposes the conclusion of a Soviet-Finnish pact...
...myth of "objective journalism" reached its height about 1938-39, before the Hitler-Stalin pact, before the sharp cleavage of war reminded the Western world that the famed "two sides of a question" are not always, or even often, equal. In the confusion of the late '303, TIME departed from the principle of its prospectus, and announced that it was practicing "objective" and "scientific" journalism. It wasn't. It never will. Nor will anybody else...