Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before.leaving by the front door, Dean Acheson slammed America's back door behind him. To such apprehensive nations as Australia and Korea, which had cried aloud for a Pacific pact, Secretary Acheson answered: the time was not ripe. Obviously, he was directing all his attention to Europe at the moment...
Said Acheson: "While it is true that there are serious dangers to world peace existing in the situation in Asia, it is also true, as Prime Minister Nehru of India stated to the press the other day, that a Pacific defense pact could not take shape until present internal conflicts in Asia were resolved." Secretary Acheson added crisply: "Nehru's view appears to be an objective appraisal of the actual practical possibilities at the present time...
...Like most if not all of my other colleagues on the Williams faculty," Williams College President James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, wrote in an article for his school's May, 1949, Alumni Review number, "I support the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact, and the furnishing of military supplies to our fellow signatories...
Returned. Gerhart was docile as a dove as the tender reached for the dock, and he was polite and pleasant after being installed in Southampton jail. But the Polish embassy in Britain issued a statement for him: "I am the first prisoner of the North Atlantic pact, this unholy alliance of reaction . . . Down with the American gendarmes ... I am being kidnaped by the British authorities...
...West three years to make the same decision if either is to be successful. According to the author, Russia could now capture all of Western Europe easily, but the United States would still possess final superiority in the air. Time is with this country in arming the Atlantic Pact nations but it will also allow Russia to develop atomic weapons...