Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while he was neither ready to help Fanfani nor to climb down one bit from his neutralist foreign policy, Nenni was ready at last to break his formal "unity of action" pact with the Reds. Over stormy protests from pro-Communist members of the party, the delegates voted by a 3-to-2 margin to end the "popular front" electoral alliance with the Communists. Cooperation with the Reds will continue in trade unions, local governments and cooperatives. At the moment, this amounted to not much of a break for Nenni, and none at all for Fanfani...
...nothing. To prove it, the Kremlin at week's end put out a 21-page draft treaty proposing that 30 nations should get together to sign a German peace treaty based in part upon 1) withdrawal of Western Germany from NATO and Communist East Germany from the Warsaw Pact; 2) early withdrawal of all foreign troops-a plan that differed not much from a Russian plan that the U.S. had rejected as outrageous almost five years before. Amiably, Anastas Mikoyan added that, after all, bargaining is bargaining, so take an extreme position, then compromise. He amiably went...
When the Nazis marched into Paris, Joanovici sought to avoid the concentration camps by taking out Soviet citizenship papers (the Nazi-Soviet pact was not yet broken). Taunted later for this, Joanovici snapped: "So, is it a crime? There were queues a mile long outside the Russian embassy...
...British, hitherto the politest, who delivered the sharpest retort to the insulting distortions of history implicit in Khrushchev's Berlin note. With tongue in cheek, the British wondered why, among other historical documents, the Russians did not mention the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which "made the outbreak of war inevitable," called Munich a lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure...
...machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former German territory, including coal deposits richer than those of the Ruhr...