Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact carried no commitment to rearm Europe nation by nation, said Dulles firmly. Under its terms, a council and defense committee would make recommendations. "If the recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under...
Taft was quickly on his feet. He asked if Dulles knew that the President was about to submit an arms program as "an implementation of the Atlantic pact." Dulles knew no such thing: "I do understand that there is a program . . . which was worked out entirely independently of any treaty ... I see in the treaty no legal or moral obligation to vote any arms program which is not defensible on its own merits...
Would Dulles be willing to put such a reservation into the pact? "No ... In the first place, it is unnecessary; and in the second place, it is untimely...
...flight international lawyer, official Republican Party foreign-policy adviser and member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, junior Senator Dulles already had a reputation that many a senior Senator would never attain. In his first senatorial statement, Dulles announced his support of the Atlantic pact and an arms program to back it up, but reserved decision on how much should be spent on arms. Dulles will serve until December 1. He told reporters that he had "no expectation" of becoming a candidate in the special November election to pick a successor for the remainder of Wagner...
...other hand, a policy of active resistance to communism in Asia is hard to envisage because it is so remote from U.S. political experience. It would be much more difficult than U.S. anti-Communist strategy for Europe as worked out in the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic pact...