Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other bomb was figurative and political. The Socialists joined the Communists in a pact calling for "unity of action." This did not mean fusion, which the Socialists, after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...
Said Baruch: Russia's counterproposal actually adds up to little more than a formal renunciation of atomic warfare (as weak as the Kellogg-Briand Pact...
...Mexico, India) refused to sign with the U.S. unless they got a similar split. This would curtail operations of many a U.S. airline. They have the equipment to fly to Mexico, for example, far oftener than the Mexicans can fly to the U.S. Only Brazil signed a five freedoms pact with the U.S. The U.S. was virtually stymied unless it came to an understanding with Britain...
...from all sides, cultural, political, and moral. If Lippmann is not as liberal as Atkinson, at least he is as fair-mindeed, and his interpretation of Molotov's speech constitutes the most damaging attack yet sustained by the Soviet. His thesis is that Molotov, the man who signed the pact of friendship with Germany seven years ago next month, is attempting to isolate the Western powers from Germany by inveighing against dismemberment of the Reieh and is thereby smoothing the way for another Russo-German alliance based on a new partition of Poland...
Died. Yosuke Matsuoka, 66, U.S.-educated, slyly U.S.-hating Japanese Foreign Minister (1940-41) who promoted and signed both the Tripartite Pact with the Axis powers and the Neutrality Pact with Russia, then died an abrupt political death when Germany attacked Russia; of tuberculosis, arthritis and complications; while on sick leave from his trial as a war criminal; in Tokyo...