Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climax of this sweetness-&-light campaign conies when "Father Palmiro" and his Communist Curates vote for the reaffirmation of the Lateran Pact (TIME, April 7), thus depriving the Christian Democrats of their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
...situation: Secretary Marshall and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Bidault concluded an agreement giving France coal from British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany. This was further evidence that the U.S. really meant to help build and guarantee a stable Europe (see below). Such moves as the French coal pact would speak more persuasively to the Russians than all the voices in all the conference rooms...
...survey, set up by last year's pact between Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug and the miners' John L. Lewis, had been politically inspired. But there could be no doubt of its professional impartiality. The investigators, headed by Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, blamed both the mine owners and the United Mine Workers for the fact that a large part of the nation's mining population, "bypassed" by progress, "has benefited little by improved standards of housing and health." Some findings...
...occasion was the signing of a long-delayed agreement (TIME, Dec. 23) between The Netherlands and its rich, rebellious East Indies colony. Drafted last November at Linggadjati, the pact (sometimes known as the Cheribon Agreement, for a nearby town) was held up by extremists on both sides who wanted to continue the struggle. After four months of discussion, two still unsatisfied members of the Dutch delegation (both professors) last week refused to sign, and left for home without even waiting to say goodbye. "What influence politics can have even on the manners of the very learned!" clucked the Data...
...lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...