Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibet. To such an indictment, the Communist opposition had little to add. But there were both conservatives and socialists who were distressed by the Prime Minister's position. Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit agreed that any U.S.-Pakistan military pact would be unfortunate, but went on to imply a sisterly rebuke to brother Jawaharlal: India, she warned, must not develop a "fear psychosis." If the U.S. was charged with threatening the world, said she, "I am not prepared to believe...
SIGNING of a "no-raiding" pact this week by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. presidents does not necessarily mean union peace. C.I.O. chieftains have agreed to sign on the condition that their opposite numbers in the A.F.L. sign also. In many cases this means Dave Beck and his big (1,000,000 members) Teamsters Union. But Beck has no intention of signing in a hurry, may never sign...
True to the pact in its own fashion, the army soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung...
...blue of eye, trap-tight of lip, Hans von Seeckt was called "the Sphinx." The Sphinx's two rules for the Reichswehr as a political power: it must be 1) "above party," and 2) "a state within a state." In the early '20s, Seeckt kept the telephone pact with the Socialists, at the same time busied himself with building up the cadres of a new German army and a new armament industry-both in violation of the Versailles peace treaty...
...fought against the military pact with the U.S. when I was a Senator; I did not agree with its wording," he said. But now "the pact is a pledge which binds us to the U.S. To ask its denunciation is only a Communist slogan . . . What do the workers know about the military pact? What they say is only a line imported from behind the Iron Curtain, where there are ten million slave workers...