Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within his small maneuvering room, Butler faces opposition from the gunboat imperialists in his own ranks whose spokesman is Press Lord Beaverbrook; they are outraged by the recent pact with Japan, which allowed small quantities of Japanese textiles into Britain and lifted the ban on Japanese goods in the colonies. To those who cry that his policy is breaking up the Commonwealth, Rab retorts: "The Empire boys underestimate my intense belief in the Commonwealth. I believe it has resources which will make your eyes pop out. But this is 1954, not 1904. Australia, Canada, South Africa will not be denied...
...West German sources.) Last week, for the first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward the gargantuan pan-European security pact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed at the Berlin Conference as a Red alternative to NATO (TIME, Feb. 22). It might also force the West, which has previously been able to ignore the East German regime as "illegitimate" and deal only with Soviet occupiers, to deal directly with the Grotewohl...
...Condemned racial discrimination and called for laws to end it. 1$ Decided to hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...
...foresaw one possible stable balance with an 'independent and united Europe making a three-way mutual security pact with both the Allies and the Soviet Union. Stevenson termed the plan "remote conjecture," however, and said that improving the present power balance was our immediate concern. Nowadays, he said, "our coalition speaks with many voices and many tongues. Intra-community bickering, conflict, and mistrust obscure the steady vision of extra-community danger. And as we saw in Europe, first in 1914 and again in 1939, a house divided against itself will fall...
...Pact. The U.S. has agreed to help by funneling as much as $100 million for defense materials into Japanese industry this year. Japan can also count on about $240 million in special Army procurement orders over the next three years, another $350 million a year to be spent by U.S. security forces. But the Japanese look on U.S. aid as only a short-term proposition. The long-range solution, they say, lies in heavy trade with Asia, and they are looking longingly at Red China...