Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House. Newsmen waylaid him. Ike greeted them genially. "Get out the cross and let a guy mount it," he grinned. Ike had been summoned by the President to discuss the job which Harry Truman had in mind for him. The job: Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic pact forces in Europe...
...author and the most vocal exponent of the Taft-Hartley Law. Many Democrats want to get rid of Taf because he opposes the administration consistently and has the prestige among his Republican colleagues to make these political opinions felt. Taft balked at sending aid to Europe, opposed the Atlautie Pact, fought the nomination of David E. Lilienthal as Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, advocated renewed aid to Europe Kai-Shek and the defense of Formosa, and suggested, when the name of General George O. Marshall was before the Senate for confirmation as Secretary of Defense, that the General had shown himself...
...truculent document, devoted mostly to vilifying the Western powers for their plan to rearm Western Germany (". . . the aggressive bloc of the so-called Atlantic pact [is trying] to make [Germany] definitely a tool of their aggressive, war-strategic plans in Europe . . ."). Then, crying "peace and international security," the communiqué demanded a Big Four "proclamation" banning the remilitarization of Germany, a peace treaty to be followed by the withdrawal of occupation forces, a new "All-German Constitutional Council" uniting East and West Germany...
Open Eyes. Finally, let us consider certain specifications of the peace which I propose. First of all, we should see that Germany is firmly tied into the other nations of Western Europe and becomes a full partner in the North Atlantic pact. The importance of this point cannot be overemphasized. We must not permit Germany again to get into a position where she can play the West and East against each other as a preliminary to attacking one after the other. The Schuman plan offers real assurance in this direction. The most effective way to prevent Germany from making another...
With Communist pressure rising in neighboring Indo-China U.S. and Siamese officials at Bangkok last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...