Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
...Truman seemed to favor lengthy vacations. In March of 1949, he and his little family spent two weeks in the surf and sunshine at Key West. During this time the Atlantic Treaty Pact was signed, and he communicated daily with Secretary of State Acheson and other Department officials. He followed this "work while you play" pattern throughout his seven years in office. Roughly twelve percent of his first three months as Chief Executive was spent at vacation retreats...
...Stalin myth was in working order just in time for the Soviet Pact with Hitler in 1939, and it survived even that cynical deal. The great Stalin myth did not prevent the German army from sweeping through western Russia less than two years later. In the space of four months it had reached the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad: a feat made possible, in part, by the defection of hundreds of Stalin-hating Russian generals and the surrender of 4,000,000 peasant soldiers. But other millions of Russian soldiers held out, and so did Stalin's luck: General...
...bout took place, there was an air of determined calm. Robert Gorham Davis, Smith College English professor and first witness at the open hearings, patiently repeated a personal history. He had joined the Communist Party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard; two years later, disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he quit. Party members, he said, had tried to recruit faculty members, not to influence students. Now, in his opinion, "the influence of Communists is very slight" on the teaching profession. With some reluctance, the slim, spectacled teacher identified in the public hearing former fellow Communists about whom...
...rushing settlement of this problem, Dulles has hampered efforts for both ratification and amendment. Proponents of the pact will have to sell a treaty still subject to changes. Even if there were no serious opposition to ratification of the treaty in European parliaments, American intervention would cause resentment. But with both the French and German Assemblies badly split on the bill, American warnings hand opposition parties a perfect theme song: Dollar Diplomacy. And even if the unfinished pact is ratified, future amendments will be that much harder. Knowing that they will get no second chance to junk the treaty, each...