Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective third force in Asia. Much additional strength would come from treaties of aid and mutual defense with the United States. It is important, however, that neither the U.S. nor the Chinese Nationalists be included. Inclusion of either could trigger a war with Communist China, for the pact would be termed one of imperialism, not self-defense...
...organization would be a firm deterrent to further attacks. If Indo-China were divided by some arbitrary line, any truce violations by the Communists could be branded as aggression and treated by collective action. On the other hand, if a whole free state of Indo-China were established, the pact would effectively aid in fighting possible aggression from China...
Tito was in Turkey this time to try to convert the Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...from their point of view, are right to oppose EDC, because every act which tends to make our democracy stronger only makes more improbable their dream of world domination . . . The Reds say EDC menaces peace. It is not true. They tried to convince the Italian people that the Atlantic pact would provoke war. But behold, five years have passed and . . . war is further away than ever. Why, even Russia has formally asked to join the Atlantic pact . . . We have learned a lot about the Communists. We shall not permit Parliament to suffer paralysis. The government will do its duty without...
...Western diplomats promptly skewered the Soviet maneuver for the impossible thing it was. The State Department noted that only a few weeks ago at Berlin, Molotov had lambasted NATO and introduced his pan-European pact idea with the specific proviso that the U.S. should be excluded except as an "observer." Now he was switching decks. "It is a maneuver," said the U.S. spokesman, "to gain admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security...