Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Clement Attlee told a packed House of Commons last week what the government proposed to do about defense. Said Attlee: "We, in common with our Allies of the North Atlantic pact, were approached by the United States . . . and we were asked what we could undertake. Our reply was that it was physically possible for us to undertake a program which would . . . increase defense expenditure to a total of ?3,600,000,000 [$10,080,000,000] in the next three years...
...Whitehall. During World War II he held an important post in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, then took charge of postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
Churchill's salvo at Britain's Socialists would find other targets. While the Tory leader spoke, the North Atlantic Treaty's Council of Deputies was meeting in London's Lancaster House to see how the individual defense programs of North Atlantic pact nations jibed with the overall requirements of Western European defense. The deputies realized that, even on paper, the funds, industrial production and manpower which the North Atlantic powers were prepared to contribute did not add up to the minimum requirements for Western defenses (TIME...
...Connecticut's Brien McMahon: "These masters of hindsight seek to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divorce themselves from our defeats . . . The record shows that more than one-half of the Republican party has vigorously opposed ... the Greek-Turkish, EGA and Atlantic Pact policies...
Last week representatives of Canada and the U.S. met in Ottawa for what was, in effect, a renewal of the Hyde Park conference. The Roosevelt-King pact was a ready model for the 1950 planners. It took less than five hours to draw up a new agreement. Its basic terms...