Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning was sounded at a special news conference called six days before the Baghdad Pact members open a conference at Ankara...
Leonid Ilychev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, used the news conference as a springboard for a denunciation of the Baghdad Pact and especially of Turkey, the host country for the pact meeting next week. Turkey, he said, had taken an especially aggressive stand against Russia at the NATO meeting. Turkey is a member both of the Baghdad and NATO pacts...
...earful of Indian ideas on the necessity for nuclear disarmament and the desirability of a new summit meeting. At a banquet in Macmillan's honor, Neutralist Nehru warmly praised the British Prime Minister for his tentative endorsement a fortnight ago of an East-West nonaggression pact-an endorsement that Britain's Foreign Office has been trying to explain away ever since. Lunching with Indonesia's President Sukarno, who has made India his first stop on a six-week "rest cure" away from his fragmented country,* Macmillan listened noncommittally to an appeal for his aid in moderating Australian...
...could start by a solemn pact of nonaggression." Of all the innumerable Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...
Macmillan coupled his dramatic proposal with many a cautionary clause. He warned against the emotional appeal of a nuclear disarmament pact that might leave the West "virtually defenseless before the greatly superior weight of Russian conventional arms." He pointed out that every government since 1947, both Labor and Tory, had approved the basing of U.S. bombers in the United Kingdom for mutual defense. As to the new plan to install thermonuclear missiles in Britain-"If bases for nuclear rockets are the up-to-date equivalent for bomb-carrying planes, then our whole defense policy, our whole strategy, becomes meaningless unless...