Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schweinfurt and Paris factories blitzed by American bombers; but others, in Sweden, kept on turning out ball bearings for the Nazi war machines. Swedes had thought that their iron-ore and ball-bearing trade with Germany had U.S.-British blessing; both Allies approved the revised Swedish-German trade pact last January.* If deprived of U.S. gasoline Swedes would suffer, but not so much as if they gave up German coal. Likely Swedish answer: a pained, determined...
From Washington the play flashes back to Rome the day Mussolini marched in, to Berlin when Naziism still wore swaddling clothes, to Paris on the eve of the Munich pact. It shows the young diplomat Alex Hazen (Dennis King) marrying not the serious-minded girl he loves (Barbara O'Neil) but her more conventional best friend (Cornelia Otis Skinner). The women become estranged; later the other woman becomes Alex's mistress. But not till the reunion in Washington is the true nature of their roles brought to light: it was less their feeling for Alex that actuated...
...sister-accord, Russia renewed for five years her fisheries pact with Japan. Here too Moscow was tough. It withdrew from Japanese use 24 fishing "lots," upped the rent 6%, banned Japanese fishermen from the east side of Kamchatka (facing Attu...
Tokyo played up the fisheries pact, played down the lost concessions ("It wasn't much anyway"). Said wishful Radio Tokyo: "Friendly relations have been further bolstered...
...speech last February suggested, more bluntly than any Czech statement had, that Eastern and Central Europe might be conceded as legitimate spheres of Russian leadership. Faced with such a British attitude, and the complete lack of an American attitude, the Czechoslovak Government in Exile, unanimously backing the Soviet-Czech pact, was last week readying itself to enter Czechoslovakia in the footsteps of the Red Army and two affiliated Czechoslovak brigades. The Czechoslovak Communists, with headquarters in Moscow and a branch office in London, seemed to have a good chance of entering the Government...