Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named veteran Foreign Service Officer Julius C. Holmes, currently minister to Tangier, to examine "means to extend NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields." This means speeding the conversion of NATO from a narrow military pact into the broader politico-economic alliance that Secretary Dulles has been hinting...
Last week Jordan got itself a new Premier and new army commander. The Premier was Said el Mufti, who resigned last December in protest against British attempts to take Jordan into the Baghdad Pact. Now he cried for a revision of the Anglo-Jordanian treaty, which provides Jordan with a $25 million-a-year British subsidy, more than half the country's total revenue. (The British, realizing that subsidy is an ugly word for a proud young nation, would probably agree to pay the same amount for the right to maintain bases and a tank regiment in strategic Aqaba...
Unforgotten Crimes. The mistakes Moscow has made in Poland date back to 1938, when Dictator Stalin liquidated almost the entire leadership of the old Polish Communist Party. The Stalin-Hitler pact, by which Germany and Russia partitioned Poland for spoils, the massacre of 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in 1940, the failure of Russia to aid the underground Polish armies, and the deliberate stand-off by the Red army during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in 1944, are Russian crimes which Poles do not easily forget. Nor, apparently, do Polish Communists. The recent downgrading...
Instead of cautiously downgrading the "cult of personality," the Polish Communist press has called Stalin almost every name in its considerable vocabulary of vituperation. It has accused him of murdering Polish leaders. His record as a war strategist has come in for contemptuous reappraisal, his pact with Hitler bitterly criticized, and suspicion cast on his (or Russia's) failure to help the Polish Home Army. In the course of explaining why they had not exposed the Stalin evil earlier, young Polish Communist intellectuals have self-accusingly described in detail their previous efforts to twist historical facts into the party...
Last week Grotewohl got his answer in a pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...