Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt about the State Department's real feelings in the matter. To express them to the nation, Acheson had already called on Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Speaking before the Jewish War Veterans in Manhattan, Infantryman Bradley made the point with soldierly precision: "Although the North Atlantic pact is an agreement on policy for our common defense, it is evident that policy without power is like law without enforcement ... A military assistance program is obviously an essential sequel to the pact...
...Ramparts. To Bradley, both the pact and "some military assistance" were needed if Europe was to have both the means and the will to resist aggression. "The North Atlantic pact," said Bradley, "would enable free nations of the Old World and the New to funnel the great strength of our New World to the ramparts of the Old, and thus challenge an enemy where he would transgress . . . Not until we share our strength on a common defensive front can we hope [for] a real deterrent...
...General Assembly reconvened at windswept Flushing Meadow last week, most of the corridor talk among delegates centered around one topic: the Atlantic Treaty. What worried U.N.ers most was whether it had weakened U.N. Some thought so. The Russians, whose press was hoarsely denouncing the pact as a threat to peace, were expected to raise a major row about it in the Assembly. Actually, as Australian Assembly President Herbert ("Doc") Evatt pointed out, the charter provides for regional defense pacts within U.N.'s general framework. The Atlantic pact presented the Russians with the fact of Western unity. It was hard...
...Spain was also sounding out her chances of admission to the Atlantic pact. Three days after his Foreign Minister signed the pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...
Last week Owner Dolly lowered the boom on Editor Ted. Said Thackrey: "I was given the choice of supporting the Atlantic pact or resigning. I resigned." What Ted meant was that his estranged wife had fired him. As she resumed the title of publisher, Dolly explained in a Post editorial: "Irreconcilable differences on fundamental questions . . ." (Lamented the Daily Worker: "Mrs. Thackrey purged Mr. Thackrey . . . because he won't say 'yes' to an atomic war with the Soviet Union...