Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft sponsored a public-housing bill, Wherry accused him of a tendency towards socialism. With the exception of farm subsidies, which Nebraskan Wherry supported, he racked up as consistent a record of opposition to the New Deal and the Fair Deal as any Republican Senator. He called the Atlantic pact a "trap" and the Greek-Turkish program a "military adventure...
...hardest put to explain his vote (in 1949) against the North Atlantic Treaty. "In spite of the fact that I approved the warning given to Russia by the ratification of the Atlantic pact, I voted against it because I felt it was contrary to the whole theory of the United Nations Charter, which had not then been shown to be ineffective...
...Soviet Union has talked a great deal about peace, but when it comes to achieving peace through deeds . . . they obstruct," said Acheson. "They call for a new five-power pact but refuse to carry out our 60-power peace pact...
...security organizations which the West has been building. There are now five, involving 38 nations, and the U.S. is the only nation belonging to all: NATO, with twelve partners already and Greece and Turkey soon to join; the 21 countries in the Organization of American States; the Pacific security pact between the U.S., Australia and New Zealand; separate U.S. security arrangements with Japan, and with the Philippines. Each is designed to counter aggression in its region. Under Acheson's new plan, the U.N. General Assembly would appoint these security organizations as its agents in various parts of the world...
...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...