Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking's alliance with Moscow was formally announced in February 1950 when Party Leader Mao and Premier Chou negotiated at the Kremlin a 30-year Sino-Soviet friendship pact in which the two nations promised 'in a spirit of sincere cooperation . . . to participate in all international actions aimed at insuring peace [and to] consult each other in regard to all important international problems...
...thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...
...lushly romantic Mayerling, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out the theory of a suicide pact, inspired by Emperor Franz Joseph's order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...
NATO Progress Last week brought good news for NATO: ¶The U.S. finally decided that there were "valid reasons" for bringing Greece and Turkey into NATO, began polling the eleven other pact members, whose unanimous approval is required. Inclusion of the two nations, the free world's outposts on the southern flank of the Red empire, would mean extending NATO borders 800 miles eastward, but would also mean the addition of 525,000 well-trained troops to Eisenhower's army. Britain and France would prefer a separate regional pact in the Near East, but will go along with...
...case the comrades had forgotten, Party Boss Dennis thoughtfully listed a few made-in-Moscow slogans for getting the discussions started: End the war in Korea! Hands off China! Start peaceful negotiations! Let People's China take her rightful place in the U.N.! Ban the Abomb! For a pact of peace among the five great powers...