Word: aggressors
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...Governments, said Augur, "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent Premier Mussolini's war machine from being launched at the heart of Ethiopia. When this happens the League of Nations' procedure must take a predestined course . . . culminating eventually in a decision to apply sanctions to the aggressor state. . . . The pressure to be applied shall be economic...
...Ohio's Representative Theodore E. Burton introduced a resolution to empower the President to prohibit at his discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State...
...nobly-worded communiqué, he and Stalin invited Eastern Europe to a multilateral pact of nonaggression, consultation and nonassistance to an aggressor...
...Duce's vast drafty office in the Palazzo Venezia details of that plan were worked out. An aerial defense treaty between France and Italy alone was drawn up providing that, if either nation was attacked, the combined fleets would attack the aggressor. It is intended to invite Belgium, Germany and Great Britain to adhere to the agreement as soon as possible. It was indicated last week that Great Britain would make no promises but was thoroughly in favor of the plan as far as it has gone...
...verbal rambles Sir John said Hitler told him at Berlin that Germany would join a pact of mutual non-aggression but not a pact pledging mutual assistance against an aggressor such as the proposed Eastern Locarno (TIME, Feb. 18). At this the Latins cut in last week with questions. How did Hitler feel, they asked, about a pact in which Germany would join other States in pledging non-aggression only, while the other States further pledged mutual aid to resist aggression...