Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hicks states that "the occasion of my resignation is the Soviet-German pact" but he continues that he cannot condemn nor support the pact because he does not know "what is going on in Europe...
...pronouncements of the New Masses on the recent pact are a confounding structure of logical hair-splitting built upon a sweeping assumption as to the duplicity of all mankind--outside of the Bolsheviks. Let the editors tell you how Soviet Russia pled for a peace front with Britain and France. Let them further explain how the latter powers deliberately sabotaged the negotiations, using them merely as a card against Hitler; how they attempted to isolate Russia and maneuver her into a single-handed war with Hitler. In the light of this, Russia was forced into a rapprochment with the Nazis...
...last week's news had no other effect, it certainly pepped up diplomatic gossip. Around the embassies went the story about Yang Chieh, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow: The day before the German-Russian pact was announced, Yang Chieh called on Russian Premier Viacheslav Molotov and asked what was up. Said he with Oriental suavity, he had heard rumors of a German-Russian plan to dismember Poland. . . . Thunderstruck, Premier Molotov gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland...
Premier Molotov, whose name in Russian means Hammer (Stalin means Steel), whose pretty wife Paulina is Commissar of Fisheries and is very close to Stalin, may well have been taken by surprise. If so, his astonishment last week must have mounted hourly. No sooner had the German-Russian pact been hailed as thwarting the foul design of British Tories to direct German expansion to the East than the German Army did what (in the Russian view) Tories had failed to accomplish-i.e., directed German expansion to the East...
...chukuo fighting would stop at once, border delimitations begin. With mutual kisses still wet on the unblushing cheeks of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the world jumped, too soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting over a few of the bleakest square miles in the world seemed mutually futile. The truce was a truce...