Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This group remained in the background while brilliant, flabby-fleshed Maxim Litvinoff had his internationalist innings in 1929-39. But when the Munich pact ended the Geneva daydreams, the nationalist band came to the fore. One of its members, Viacheslav Molotov, stepped into Litvinoff's place as Commissar of Foreign Affairs...
...London, he was known as "Mr. Smith." In Eden's room on May 26, Molotov signed (with Churchill's pen) a 20-year pact which is still the basis of Anglo-Soviet Union relations...
...Washington, officials called him "Mr. Brown." He signed no pact, returned to Russia with the hypocritical and widely misunderstood statement of "complete agreement on the urgency of a second front in 1942." As the record later showed, there was no agreement, no promise; for their different purposes, President Roosevelt and the Russians had bamboozled their own peoples and the world...
Cried the Tokyo radio: Marshal Pietro Badoglio committed "a glowing act of treason against the tripartite pact," but Japan and Germany were prepared for just such an incident. And so, said an official government statement, Japan "has taken measures considered necessary after consideration of all eventualities." The "measures": all Italian interests in the Far East, specifically...
...which dominated the League had no will to use them. Those nations were Great Britain and France. European politicians came to believe that the League was no more than an alternate tool of the Franco-British balance of power-a belief that was ignobly confirmed when the Hoare-Laval pact, giving Mussolini a free fist in Ethiopia, put an effective end to the League's lone effort to apply not even military but economic force against an aggressor...