Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower...
...large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks about the "friendship pact." Meantime, however, the Finns prudently prepared to vote $95,000,000 in war credits...
...even so the advice of his soldiers was probably merely cover. For the sum mer he had been waiting on events to turn in his favour and had been making his preparations to seize the opportunity, when it was offered to him. The Russian Pact appeared to give him the advantage which he was seeking and thereafter there was no time to lose, if mud was not to be added to Poland's allies...
...Stephen Spender, most lyrical of left-wing poets, the Soviet-German pact seemed to "make nonsense of most of the left-wing writing of the past ten years." He saw the war as "the most extraordinary confusion, in which each side is fighting to produce chaos in the other before it has lost control of itself. ... As I haven't been told to do anything, I can devote myself to writing, perhaps my posthumous works...
Bishop Manning's last point was demonstrably true. Last fortnight the ''Protestant-minded" Churchman suggested that attacks upon the Concordat may be motivated by a wish to wreck "a pact which would make more difficult the Romanization of the Anglican communion." The "Catholic-minded" Living Church has been critical ever since, last summer, it heard that grape juice had been used at communion at a unity conference in Berkeley, Calif.-in the diocese of liberal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, chairman of the Concordat commission...