Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy industry has long been haunted by a nightmare: in building up the U.S. for war, it may well have overbuilt it for peace. Last week, news from Washington turned the nightmare into a beautiful dream: in the works is a U.S.-Russian trade pact under which Russia would buy $10 billion in capital goods in the U.S. in the first three postwar years...
Protestant action on the Moscow Declaration was almost a challenge. Fortnight ago the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. told their 23,000,000 U.S. Catholics that they saw little reason to rejoice at the Moscow Declaration (TIME, Nov. 27). The pact left "an uneasiness in minds intent on peace with justice to all," a fear that "compromises on the ideals of the Atlantic Charter are in prospect...
...Battle of Russia moves in three great waves of action: the first seven months of invasion; the siege of Leningrad; the Stalingrad campaign. There are serious weaknesses: figure-skating around the Russian Revolution and the German-Soviet Pact which Sonja Henie could envy; blurring into romancing (as in some specious shots of gibbeted civilians); surprising failures to make the most of great material (Leningrad's fortitude is reinforced by only a hint of Leningrad's semistarvation). But overall and in most of its detail the film has remarkable power. Its power results from a simple fact: the greatest...
...time Peter Slavek escapes from the Nazis, the German-Russian Pact has been signed. He has become an ex-Communist. He lands in a foreign country where exiles are thick as thieves, all awaiting passage to the U.S. The Communists, ex-Communists, Nazis, Jewish refugees work out Europe's problems in miniature, and sometimes in unconscious mimicry...
...word Senate Resolution for international cooperation. For ten days, insisting it should be stronger, the B2H2 Senators had hammered at it.* Then came the Moscow agreement. Both Illinois' Scott Lucas and California's Sheridan Downey had the happy thought: Why not add the words of the pact to the Connally Resolution? Tom Connally was won over; so were the B2H2 supporters. The deadlock was broken...