Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close eye on costs ("I do not agree with those who argue that U.S. leadership requires us to spend billions simply to prove that we are more generous than the Russians"). In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower named him a delegate to the Southeast Asia Conference that resulted in the SEATO pact...
...comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial inspection plan. deployment" between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, which would allow the West to inspect satelliteland and a sliver of Russia, but permit Russian planes to fly over a disarmed Germany, most of France, and half of Britain...
...very words they themselves use to describe their proposed new Commonwealth of Socialist Nations. If only Hungary's deposed Communist Premier Nagy had spoken as correctly. Instead Nagy, yielding to the pressure of his people (and perhaps his conscience) had declared for neutrality, had denounced the Warsaw Pact and demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Nagy had committed the cardinal crime of admitting non-Communists to his government. The good Gomulka, made wise by subsequent events in Hungary, had emphasized "accord" with the Soviet Union, had reaffirmed the Warsaw Pact and was rebuilding his government on strictly Communist lines...
...Poland's 25-division army and had promised reforms in government. Last week, instead of being fired from the Polish Defense Ministry, Russia's Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was apparently to be gently pushed upstairs into Marshal Ivan Konev's job as top commander of all Warsaw Pact forces. Some 30 Soviet officers "resigning" from Polish units were wined and dined and presented with Polish decorations before going back to Russia...
...safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably defended his country's membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Americans help train the army, advise many government departments. Iran usually sides with the Arabs, but disliked Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company...