Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year 1941 was still Hitler's year. His military and political alliances were now worldwide, built on the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. His armies swept through the Balkans, across the African desert to Egypt's gates. But the Battle of Britain had been lost, "and in June 1941 the Führer sought security elsewhere than in England's conquest. The Wehrmacht threw its might against Soviet Russia, rolled to Moscow's suburbs before winter fell. Then the tide turned...
...Talked to Vice President Henry A. Wallace for an hour and a half before Wallace made another major speech on post-war policy (see p. 22). >Made his own plea for post-war planning in a statement on the first anniversary of the United Nations' pact: "In this as in no previous war, men are conscious of the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after-and of carrying forward into peace the common effort which will have brought them victory in the war. They have come to see that the maintenance and safeguarding of peace...
Taft and cautious John Bricker, both favorite sons, made a mutual assistance pact before 1940. Bricker promised then not to compete for delegates at Philadelphia. Taft gave the assurance that if his campaign were unsuccessful he would step aside for friend Bricker...
...larger significance attached to the argument over the way the pact had been presented to Congress. It was before the Senate not as a treaty, requiring a two-thirds majority in the Senate, but as a joint resolution needing only a majority. The Administration was taking this means to avoid almost certain defeat by isolationists, plus the risk of upsetting good neighborliness in a bruising give-&-take argument...
...occupation, no secret to the Axis* and most of West Africa, was kept an official secret until last week, when the State Department revealed that Liberia had last spring signed a pact giving the U.S. jurisdiction over her airports and military installations until the war against tyrannical dictators is over. Said Liberia's 60-year-old President Edwin J. Barclay, echoing the words of Napoleon Edward Taylor: "Ours is a historical friendship...