Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for this mess is Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
...down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head of her atomic research. This dreamy escapism could not go on forever. It was the Communist Party, not U.S. pressure, which had nudged France awake...
...What Lies Ahead?" From the moment he began, Tom Dewey made it clear that the Republican Party had rid itself for keeps of the old taint of isolationism. He spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...
...bourgeoisie (his father was a minor Czarist official), Zhdanov had spent his life fighting his father's kind. Historians would remember that he had been a leading advocate of the Hitler-Stalin pact, that he had sparked the 1939-40 war against Finland, directed the defense of Leningrad against the German invasion, conducted the ideological purge of writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists, founded the Cominform, and led the attack on Tito. Muscovites, however, were more likely to remember him for his funeral. It was the most pompous display the city had seen since Lenin was laid away...
...made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when the iron curtain was rung down on Czechoslovakia...