Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting the French Army in September 1939 and making his way to Russia...
...between was the veteran Manchurian barrister, Mo Teh-hui, 64, one of the negotiators of the Sino-Soviet pact of last August. Mo spent six days with the Young Marshal at Tung-tse, in Kweichow, "by the side of a beautiful lake." On his return he reported...
Actually, the Committee, while using this legalism to attack the pact, was also concerned for commercial reasons: 1) the U.S., which will provide 80% of international air travelers, will receive far less than that share of the transport business, and 2) CAB, which has kept U.S. shipping interests out of airlines, would have to give U.S. landing rights to foreign airlines owned or controlled by competing steamship lines. The Committee skipped over what the U.S. had gained, the commercial use of leased British bases, many of which were built with U.S. funds, such as Bermuda's Kindley Field...
Even CAB no longer seemed satisfied with the workings of the pact's rate-fixing machinery. The International Air Transport Association had set transatlantic fares at $360, far above the tempting low fares U.S. lines had promised. This revived CAB's earlier fears that I.A.T.A. was but a well-disguised high-fare cartel. Said CAB Chairman L. Welch Pogue: "It seems incredible that people should get together in a fare conference . . . and that nobody should have made a proposal other than the one actually agreed upon...
...worst boner dates also from his League days when, involuntarily prophetic, he spoke of a "pact of nonassistance and mutual aggression...