Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later Reporter Tabouis covered the making of the Locarno Pact, was as jubilant as Foreign Minister Briand for France's future. "Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!" Realistic old Uncle Jules Cambon brought Niece Tabouis down to earth. "Can't you see," he said, "that in spite of all those fools at Geneva who are congratulating themselves on Locarno, nothing has been basically altered? Geneva cannot change human nature overnight...
...Would keep her non-aggression pact with Japan...
...Pasha promised the ragged fellahin (peasants) and lower-middle-class shopkeepers in his Party that "draconic measures would be taken against rabble-rousers." Having protested against "the horrors of war" in already embattled Egypt, in the next breath, he promised the British strict adherence to the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Pact (making Egypt and Britain wartime allies) which Nahas Pasha, accompanied by the wealthy, plump young bride he married late in life, signed personally in London. This done, he called an election, remembering that in 1937, Farouk's electioneers had slugged and cheated him out of office...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...
Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...