Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take a position in opposition to the Moscow pact," explained Mr. Hoover in his most reasonable tone, thus baffling...
Fear and Security. Three treaties and a traditional fear were the realities behind Turkey's neutrality in World War II. The treaties were 1) a mutual-assistance pact signed with Britain in 1939; 2) a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939; 3) a friendship and nonaggression pact signed with Germany in 1941. All were hedges against Turkey's old fear of Russia, which has always wanted Turkey's greatest asset: the Straits (Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus), linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
...great hopes, a beginning for postwar Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe. The day after his arrival, he stood in the Kremlin beside his friend and patron, Joseph Stalin. Together they watched while Molotov and Czechoslovak Ambassador Zdenek Fierlinger signed a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and postwar collaboration-a pact that may serve as Russia's basic plan for other Central and Eastern European nations...
...months, U.S. emissaries have been quietly sounding out Premier Stalin and other top Russians on such a pact. They have found them just as eager to buy as the U.S. is to sell. Negotiations have reached such a stage that Washington insiders whispered last week that President Roosevelt carried a rough draft of the pact in his pocket when he met Stalin in Teheran...
Long Credit. To worrywarts who shiver at the thought of what such a pact might do to private enterprise if the Federal Government doles out the contracts, there came assurances last week from Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. The tentative plan is to let U.S. business carry the ball alone, let Russia place her contracts where she wants, and arrange her own credits. Only when the Russians run short of credit would the Federal Government step in and advance funds to be paid off in raw materials...