Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Atlantic Pact, most recent attempt to settle the confused international picture, will be signed next week, offering the propaganda-weary people of the world a glimpse of a possibility for a secure peace. The recently revealed text of the Pact shows clearly its intent and its dangers...
Perhaps the most important aspect of the treaty is that, if ratified by the Senate, it will be an official end to American isolationism. The European Recovery Program acknowledged only a temporary interest by the United States in European prosperity. The Pact, however, states that an armed attack against any signer of the Pact "shall be considered an attack against them all." This is the assurance our nation gives to the peoples of Europe that the United States will not again sit by and watch them succumb to aggression...
Throughout the treaty, there is a determined effort to prove that the Pact is in perfect-accord with the United Nations Charter. Although the declaration that the nations of Europe and North America constitute one regional area is indeed a strained interpretation of the UN Charter, it is a necessary interpretation. The signers do not want to do away with the United Nations; they believe the UN is the source of eventual peace and prosperity, as stated in the preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter...
...ineffective because the key to negating any "communist propaganda" is influencing Europe (the region considered so crucial in the Atlantic Pact), and not the United States, where anti-Russian and anti-communist feeling is already much too intense. If Schlesinger wished to announce his disapproval of the Conference, he had far better have done so as an individual than through the dubious medium of Professor Hook's dummy organization...
Some of these chinks in the Western armor were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...