Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada and the U.S. reached agreement last week on the all-important issue of how the Canadian forces are to obtain U.S. arms under the Military Assistance Pact. Canada got special treatment for a special reason: of all MAP countries she is the only one ready to pay cash. But the arms deal was no simple buy & sell transaction. Until U.S. concessions opened the way for a settlement, it had seemed that one of the most bitter disputes in years might develop between the two neighbors...
...Palestine, our lack of a definite policy has gained the enmity of both Jews and Arabs. He also criticized our failure to get Turkey to join the Atlantic Pact while Italy was invited...
Emmanuel appears to have drifted gradually from his wartime alliance with the Communists, rather than to have made a sudden break. He did not sign, for instance, petitions defending Joliot-Curie, attacking France's Indo China policies, or protesting the Atlantic Pact-petitions considered in France to be Communist inspired...
Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted off to the polls, returned even fewer Communists to the Diet than they had had before. Last week, on the eve of Finland's presidential election, the bear bared his teeth...