Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fastening Failure. Faced with such a sterile situation, the duty of diplomats is to fasten the failure on the other party. The West entered the lists firmly united on a basic proposition: no European security pact, or even discussion of it, without a settlement of the reunification of Ger many. Molotov arrived with the paraphernalia he had peddled in July: "European security" came first, German reunification was "subordinate," and there was no hurry about it anyway...
...West also offered a guarantee that if any pact member "which is also a NATO member" attack "any party which is not a NATO member," the others would agree to go to the victim's aid. In other words, if a united Germany joined NATO, the U.S., Britain and France pledged themselves to go to the aid of Communist Russia, Poland, or Czechoslovakia in case Germany attacked them. For the U.S., this was an unprecedented commitment. Secretary of State
...Yemen announced that it was negotiating a "friendship pact" with the U.S.S.R...
...plane which flew him down to the "splendid marble villa" of Nikita Khrushchev near Yalta in the Crimea. Nenni sat with Khrushchev on a terrace overlooking the Black Sea, and companionably discovered that he and Nikita were as one in many things. German unification (both against), a European "security" pact (both for), etc., etc. According to Nenni, the closest they came to discussing Italian politics was a casual remark of Khrushchev's: "And, by the way, how is Togliatti feeling these days?" Nenni rather implied that Khrushchev was just being polite-Togliatti has yet to receive an invitation...
...five-year labor contract, while the union did not want to be tied down for that long. Said Robert D. Blasier, the company's industrial-relations vice president: "Westinghouse cannot continue to face periodic walkouts and threats while its major competitor [General Electric, which got a five-year pact from I.U.E. in August] enjoys a long period of labor peace...