Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate...
...became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
Gootenburg also announced that Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, will lead an informal discussion with HLU and Radcliffe members of Students for Democratic Action at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Adams Upper Common Room. The topic will be "The Proposed North Atlantic Pact...
...Told Russia placidly that she would study conditions for joining the Atlantic Pact...
...healthy side, Acheson had helped polish the final draft of the North Atlantic pact. It now pledged the U.S. to defend Western Europe with armed force, if necessary-reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated...