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Last week, as Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden looked benignly on, Ambassador Maisky and Poland's Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski put their names to a pact satisfactory to both countries. The treaty, under which Russia washed out the 1939 conquest but did not guarantee Poland's former boundaries, was officially approved, but many Poles found it far from agreeable. Two members of the Polish Cabinet (General Casimir Sosnkowski and Marjan Seyda) had steadfastly voted against it. Foreign Minister August Zaleski left the Cabinet before it was signed as a protest against adopting any treaty that was not unanimously...
...refuse to accept all the forced machinery of a rediscovery of Latin America and of putting the formidable technical and financial power of the American movies, the radio and the press at the service of a sudden continental conquest...
...Costs of occupation (France: 400 million francs a day) are not fixed in relation to what the German military spends in an occupied country, but on the basis of the country's maximum war budget prior to German conquest...
...this week. But Finance Minister Masatsune Ogura betrayed no alarm. He said that Japan's answer to the democratic gun would be to "push ahead" with its plans for imperial self-sufficiency in Asia-or, as he called it, a "Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere." Theoretically, the conquest of the South China Sea would give Japan almost all the raw materials she needs. But actually, it would...
...work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...