Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remark on Sept. 27 in Louisville] be serious? Can an Administration frankly confessing that it could not prevent the loss of China-the whole heart of Asia-have the audacity to boast nonetheless of having 'blocked' the Communists in Asia?" Eisenhower favors an effective Pacific defense pact. He advocates top priority in U.S. aid to the "newborn and reborn nations" of Africa, the Middle East and Asia...
...sovereign state. Tsedenbal signed a ten-year treaty with Red China pledging cultural, economic and educational exchanges. No mention was made of a military alliance, thus underlining the fact that Outer Mongolia's only military connections are with the Soviet Union. At lavish banquets celebrating the pact, Premier Tsedenbal toasted both Mao and Stalin, but for every toast honoring Mao, the "great leader of the Chinese people," there were at least six eulogies of Stalin, hailed as the "Father of the Mongolian Republic . . . who has emancipated us from the imperialist [Chinese] yoke." Sweet are the uses of ritual...
...18th Congress (1939), on the eve of World War II, laid down a new zig in Russia's zigzag foreign policy. Stalin denounced the Western democracies for "urging Germany on to march farther East." Thus he foreshadowed his deal with the Nazis (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939), which helped unleash Hitler's invasion of Poland. Stalin told the delegates: "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world...
...hostility is less gaudy and more lasting. For instance, the band of squabblers which comprise NATO have developed some measure of amiability, even though progress toward their goals has faltered somewhat. On the other side of the globe, the Japanese Peace Treaty, and its attendent promise of a pacific pact of the North Atlantic variety, are healthy signs of agreement at a time and place where agreement is rare...
...hostility is less gaudy and more lasting. For instance, the band of squabblers which comprise NATO have developed some measure of amiability, even though progress toward their goals has faltered somewhat. On the other side of the globe, the Japanese Peace Treaty, and its attendent promise of a pacific pact of the North Atlantic variety, are healthy signs of agreement at a time and place where agreement is rare...