Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet...
...phrase, the United Nations, slipped into the world's vocabulary. Editorial writers and military commentators used it glibly. And last week they began to wonder what, exactly, it meant-that pact by which 26 nations bound themselves fortnight ago not to make a separate peace with their Axis enemies...
...would be a long time before the full story of the pact's signing came out. What was known was that by New Year's Day the wrinkles had been ironed out of the draft drawn by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle and his assistant Carlton Savage. Britain's Churchill, Russia's Litvinoff and China's T. V. Soong were called into conference at the White House that evening. Maxim Litvinoff had won one big point. This limited the pledge of the signers to a promise to make war to the end only...
...significance of the pact was slower being digested. In Washington, enthusiasts compared it to the Articles of Confederation that had held the 13 States together until the Constitutional Convention. Advocates of Union Now thought it did not go far enough, wanted a union of peoples, rather than of governments. Josephus Daniels recalled his last talk with Woodrow Wilson, when Wilson had said: "The things we have fought for are sure to prevail . . . [and] may come in a better way than we proposed." Advocates of a revived, strengthened League of Nations hoped the United Nations would prove the better...
...February 1937 he was told by the German Military Attache in Moscow that the Russian Army was strong, and long before Joe Davies left Moscow he pronounced the Red Army first-class. That February several diplomats told him that, to insure her own peace, Russia might well make a pact with Germany. Joe Davies came almost to expect it, especially after England and France snubbed Russia by leaving her out of Munich...