Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support of Europe? The answer, after a few minutes' hesitation, seemed to be yes-even if it had to be qualified to fit the powers of Congress. In a Washington Post poll, 50 Senators declared they would vote to declare war if any country of the North Atlantic pact was attacked; only one of 88 polled indicated he probably would...
Secretary Acheson met with the Foreign Relations Committee in secret session, spent three hours going over the working draft of the pact. The only suggested changes, said one Senator, were a "phrase here and a word there." At week's end, Acheson called in the ambassadors of the North Atlantic countries, told them that they would have a pact with teeth in it after all, and with the full knowledge and consent of the Foreign Relations Committee. And in Norway, the ruling Labor Party gave unmistakable evidence that it thoroughly understood the alarums and excursions of parliamentary government...
...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...
...unease of Western Europe was seized upon by the Communists and by the Third Forcers. Sneered the Paris Communist newspaper Libération: "U.S. hesitations are blocking the Atlantic pact." Sneered the leftist Franc-Tireur: "The Americans are willing to play with this child-alliance but not to adopt...
Although he had come to sign no pacts and to transact no formal business, St. Laurent had many matters to talk over. Uppermost in his mind was the North Atlantic defense pact (see INTERNATIONAL), which Canada keenly desires...