Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular in the Kremlin. Said he to a Communist Party Congress in Peking: "The number of American civilians in China is small and their question can be easily settled . . . The Chinese people hope that the countries of Asia and the Pacific region, including the U.S., will sign a pact of collective peace...
...home at the "psychological moment." In 1939 he dickered with Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
...meantime, Bulganin suggested, both West and East Germany could participate in a European security pact. Later, a general security system, abolishing blocs, could reunite Germany "after the creation of confidence." This will take a long time, he repeated...
...people in the Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their vineyards with the money we don't spend on arms, then they understand." As for Quai d'Orsay criticism of his security pact, he retorted: "You pretend to give Germany her liberty and at the same time oblige her to choose between a pact with the East or the West. That amounts to saying, 'I offer you a chance to spend the night with Martine Carol.* Otherwise you have to spend it with...
...Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded as if the West were getting ready to offer Russia a security pact while leaving Germany divided. That night Adenauer drafted a stern note to the West's Big Three, pointing out that West Germany would refuse to be a party to any European security arrangement that was based on the continued division of Germany. The U.S. delegation sent off a note...