Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omar Bradley of Moberly, Mo., the Army's Chief of Staff, slipped on his steel-rimmed glasses in the Senate Caucus room last week and took a soldier's look at the North Atlantic Treaty. The diplomats and statesmen had argued out the legal niceties of the pact. Infantryman Bradley skipped the fine print and drove to the main point. In his mild, high-pitched voice, Bradley told the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "Our frontiers of collective defense lie in common with theirs [the other treaty nations'] in the heart of Europe...
...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...
...deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy and British imperialists, who were "whipping up a holy war" against communism. The pact, Wallace said, would turn Russia "into a wild and desperate cornered beast...
...correct a substantial misrepresentation of my position concerning the Atlantic Pact, as reported in the CRIMSON, last Saturday. On previous occasions, I have suffered similar misrepresentations by CRIMSON reporters in silence. This time the issue is of such magnitude that I am forced to enter a disclaimer...
...your reporter alleges, "put some small measure of approval on the signing of the Atlantic Pact." On the contrary, I approved of it, with certain misgivings to be sure, as the only viable means of insuring peace between the United States and Russia in our time. My support of the Pact is not joyous, but it is, in the present world situation, quite unequivocal. Houry D. Aiken Associate Professor of Philosophy