Word: pact
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Communists mortally hate and fear Chile's Law for the Defense of Democracy and its military pact with the U.S. The law-bars Communists from registering to vote; the pact deters exporting Chilean copper to the U.S.S.R. and its military satellites. Left-wingers have urged President Carlos Ibáñez to oppose the law and pact, but he has refused. Last week, in a blunt speech, he told...
...there were difficulties. One was whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...
Last week, leaping to conclusions from a Washington meeting between President Eisenhower and Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed (who was in the U.S. for medical treatment), India's Jawaharlal Nehru gravely warned the U.S. that a military pact with Pakistan would "have very far-reaching consequences in the whole structure of things in South Asia...
...short, no pact in prospect...
...escape the Bear's hug, Finland's new government hopes for an opening of Western markets and a new trade pact with Britain. Tuomioja's Cabinet could do most to help at home by paring down wages and prices, and curtailing social benefits which Finland cannot afford. But not even Tuomioja's conservatives dare offend both the Soviet Union and the Finnish trade unions, which are wedded to the welfare state. The new Premier announced: "We shall continue Finland's policy of friendship with all nations, especially with the Soviet Union...