Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different ideas on what Russia will want after the war, and the purpose of the visit is for the two countries to compare ideas and perhaps reach an agreement. It is also possible that its purpose is for the two nations to get together to draft an Auglo-American pact to present to the Soviet Union...
According to Polish accounts, the Russian secret police caught them when Russia and Germany split up Poland in 1939. They were still in Russian prisons when Moscow and the Polish Government in exile signed a "friendship pact" in 1941-an agreement which by no means established complete friendship between the Russians and the Poles...
...joint declaration by the United Nations, which was dated Jan. 1, 1942 at Washington, been rescinded by its signers, which included all nations now fighting the Axis? Or do their pledges mutually to employ their full resources, both military and economic, against members of the Tripartite Pact and not to make a separate peace mean nothing...
...dictator, Russia has made much of abiding by signed agreements and official promises. The occupation of the Baltic States was accomplished by diplomatic pressure. The military occupation of part of Poland, the Russian argument runs, took place after the Government of Poland with which Russia had a non-aggression pact had ceased to exist. Fin land was attacked on the somewhat flimsy grounds that the Finns allegedly fired first. Nevertheless, Russia's efforts to keep the peace of Europe were stronger than most. She tried to give the League vitality. She led the way in making bilateral pacts...
Bitter Taste. These declarations are specific-perhaps more specific than the published postwar aims of the U.S. and Britain. But they leave many a forward-looking question unanswered. They omit any reference to Japan, with which Russia has a non-aggression pact. Some of the phraseology of these declarations is ambiguous and, to the Allied way of thinking, at least open to debate: e.g., the inclusion of Bessarabia and the Baltic States ("our brothers") in "Soviet lands"; government, self-chosen or not, which is "opportune and necessary...