Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republic of China. Off the Manchurian coast, aboard transports escorted by war ships of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's U. S. Seventh Fleet, hovered Central Government troops. They had come to take over from the Soviet Red Army, as agreed in last August's Sino-Russian pact. But, for no given reason, Red Army commanders balked at opening Manchuria's main ports of Dairen and Port Arthur. Hasty parleys were called at Changchun...
Victorious Voice. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is a collection of Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's wartime speeches. It begins with a broadcast made shortly after the Germans invaded Russia. It is devoted chiefly to explaining why Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and why the Red Army was not ready to repel the Nazis ("Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take...
Last week in London eleven nations signed a pact creating an advisory European Central Inland Transport Organization. This was in some ways broader, in others narrower than Truman's idea. It was broader because it included railways and highways as well as waterways; it was narrower because it affected only immediate operational problems, did not establish the political principle of internationalized transport. Russia, joining in the operational agreement, wanted more time to study the broader principle...
...Curmudgeon, who had come a producing and consuming countries. Long before then, U.S. oilmen expect to get some solid results. Some hope that the pact will mean an end to the Red Line area agreement* which has slowed drilling in parts of the Middle East...
...After World War I, U.S. companies could drill in Iraq only by joining the British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Co. and conforming to the Red Line pact. Under this pact, a member of Iraq Petroleum could drill in the Red Line area, which embraced most of Arabia and part of the old Turkish empire, only in partnership with the rest of I.P.C. As the British did not want to drill, they thus kept the U.S. companies from drilling...