In March, European leaders signed a fiscal pact that in effect locks in fiscal austerity as the response to any and all problems.
But Davies is too literal, since it is beyond doubt that the chief aggressor in World War II was Germany, even during the two years the Hitler-Stalin pact was in effect; and it was Germany that attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
One of the most enjoyable tennis matches we were ever in was a doubles contest, at the time the Nazi-Soviet pact was in effect, in which the other participants were an American Firster, an all-out-aid-to-Britain man, and conscientious objector, with whom we were paired.
The two nations will work to bring the pact into effect by the time of a visit to Japan by Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, above, expected in September.
Last week, in The New York Sun, Ronald Radosh, author of "Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War," quoted a speech by Milton Wolff, one of the exhibition's Lincoln fighters, made in 1941 while the pact was still in effect.
A Copenhagen agreement would replace the Kyoto Protocol, the current global climate pact that entered in effect in 2005 and expires in 2012.
Under the terms of the Pact, Hitler was, in effect, given authorisation to occupy two-thirds of Western Poland, as well as Lithuania.
A Pemex spokesman said Friday that its pact with Sacyr remained in effect, but analysts said that the partnership was likely to dissolve with Mr. del Rivero's ouster.
He is troubled, for example, by how the gifted and pioneering Almanac Singers of the early 1940s, a group that included Pete Seeger, performed and recorded songs that denounced the war against Nazism as a capitalist fraud so long as the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 was in effect — only to reverse themselves when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941 and the party line changed.
"Why are we looking to sunset industries, instead of promoting industries of the future?" she asks.The EU's promises to combat climate change are, in effect, a pact of solidarity between the generations.
A pact signed at the time gave it, in effect, a veto over any large sale of shares in the company.
