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...assembled proletariat he explained the great significance of the Anglo-Soviet pact which he had negotiated with Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald (TIME, Aug. 18, COMMONWEALTH). He said that the terms of the treaty did not violate the principles of Bolshevik law and defended the concessions he had made on the ground of expediency. During his discourse, he declared that: "the treaty was not born without scratches; its birth was most complicated...
...Washington Conference is hailed as a milestone toward World Peace. . . It is a four-power pact be tween first-rate Powers, who utterly ignore the interest in the Pacific of other Powers, like Holland, for example, who has more interest in the matters dealt with in the four-power treaty than some of the Signatories. Such a treaty and such an alliance do not make for World Peace...
...Democratic Party can join the Republican outfit in a suicide pact by ignoring the Ku Klux Klan issue...
...spite of official denials, a rumor continued to spread that Viscount Ki-kujiro Ishii, now Japanese Ambassador to France, and cosignatory with ex-Secretary of State Robert Lansing to the famed Lansing-Ishii pact,* was to succeed smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara at Washington...
Mongolian independence was guaranteed by Russia in 1912 and in 1913 a Chino-Russian pact recognized the autonomy of the country, but under Chinese sovereignty. The Russian revolution of 1917, however, brought swarms of Bolsheviki into the country and the Hutuktu was forced in 1919 to petition China for the cancelation of Mongolia's independence...