Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proponent of a strong union of the democracies. During the war he acted for Free Denmark in giving the United States the use of valuable air hashes and weather stations in Greenland and since then he has been an active superior of Denmark's participation in the Atlantic Pact...
Italy is an ally of the U.S. in the Atlantic Pact. How effective an ally was a question raised sharply in Rome last week. ECA officials, who under their breath had long been criticizing the Italian government's economic policies, finally said out loud what it was that bothered them...
...mechanical industries now operate only at 60% of capacity). ECA officials were worried about Italy's 1,800,000 unemployed. Above all, they were afraid that Italian industry in its present condition would not be able to do an adequate job of defense production necessary under the Atlantic Pact rearmament program...
...officials issued warnings-President Truman, General Mark Clark and General Omar Bradley exhorted the country not to lower its guard. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder warned of serious shortages, heavy taxes and inflationary problems for years to come. Preparing for this month's meeting of the North Atlantic pact allies, defense planners, led by Secretary George Marshall, were drafting plans and approaches calculated to jar Western Europe out of its lethargic attitude toward its defenses...
...states were making plans, good, bad & indifferent. A handful of states had appropriated money for civilian defense. The others had blueprints, authorizations and, at the very least, good intentions. Some of them moved to unite their efforts; last week New York's Governor Dewey signed a mutual aid pact with New Jersey's Driscoll...