Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately the structure for an altered policy already exists. Both the European Recovery Program and the Brussels Pact will serve well if administered under the reoriented recognition that non-Communist leftist leaders have something to offer their respective nations, a middleway alternative capable of competing successfully with Communist parties and thus of stopping the Russian dominance of Europe that Communists victories inherently involve...
...must be supported by some kind of military help and vice versa. An example of what that meant came this week from Brussels, where Britain and France seemed ready to join with Benelux in a military as well as economic alliance (see INTERNATIONAL). With full U.S. backing, such a pact might finally draw a firm line between the uncertain West and the all-too-certain East...
...seems to me absolutely impossible," he added, "to conceive today of a defense of Belgium limited to the frontiers of Belgium. We must take advantage of the permission given us by the U.N. Charter to organize a regional defensive pact ensuring our security...
...draw up this pact, delegates of the five nations met next morning in the Green Room of the Foreign Ministry. Within 90 minutes they reached substantial agreement. France, which has feared to come down hard on the U.S. side in the East-West struggle, and Britain, always reluctant to make a military commitment on the Continent, no longer hesitated...
This week, after dawdling 14 days, the Finns cautiously accepted Stalin's handwritten summons to a talk about a proposed pact of mutual assistance which might end Finland's freedom. Last week from Helsinki TIME'S John Walker cabled...