Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter was now officially before the Senate. There was no doubt of the outcome. Even Senator Bob La Follette, who had denounced the San Francisco conference (TIME, June 11), declared that he would vote for the pact...
Phrases and concepts were borrowed from all over. The old League of Nations preamble was there with "international peace and security." The Kellogg Pact had its echoes. There were Lincoln's "scourge of war" and Pope Leo XIII's "dignity of man." And there were fainter, but recognizable, traces of the Kuomintang party platform and of the Soviet Constitution...
...could have watched these developments with greater interest than the Japanese. Three months had passed since Russia denounced its non-aggression pact with Japan. (Unusual candid shots of Stalin making the speech in which he branded Japan an "aggressor" nation reached the U.S. last week-.) For the Japanese the question of the Red Army's future role in Asia remained what U.S. Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall last week called "the great imponderable...
...frustrated, defensive, defense less, irritable, bellicose, mean, tearful and lonely. Above all. lonely. General Charles de Gaulle, who had played the politics of grandeur with a high hand, had got his fingers pinched in Syria. Hungry for glory, the French had been happy when he signed the French-Russian pact and took his own good time about an Anglo-French agreement. They tightened their belts over their pinched bellies and felt like men again. Now they had no glory, no food and, they felt, no friends...
...because, to many Americans, the word "Communist" automatically means Russia. One of the things I wanted to find out in China was how much, if any, is the Kremlin behind the Communists in China. Russia's official conduct with regard to the Chinese Communists since they made a pact with Chiang in September 1937 has been perfectly correct and circumspect. There was no evidence that I could find or hear about that Moscow has been backing or supplying, either with materials or with guidance, the Communist government in China during the last seven years...