Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committees on Germany-probably comprising the Big Four Foreign Ministers and the Germans-the U.S. will not yield to the Soviet call for a neutralized state. Nor does the U.S. intend to let itself be drawn into Sir Winston Churchill's original notion of "a new Locarno pact," for that would involve a formal new U.S. guarantee for the Communist frontiers...
...which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war?" Russell's answer was inevitable: the governments of the world should join together to renounce war in a sort of scientist-sponsored Kellogg-Briand pact...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, no militarist, heard himself accused in Bonn last week of soliciting "a blank check for a pact between militarism and bureaucracy." The words were those of Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer, but they reflected the mood of the entire Bundestag...
...years since the signing of the North Atlantic Pact, the world's free nations have forged a chain of defense alliances which extended eastward from the Bering Sea, across North America and Europe to Turkey, then resumed again in Southeast Asia. But in the Middle East, the chain fell short of ringing the globe...
...already complaining of "an exasperating day of dust and heat and painful war memories." Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three signed their wartime pact. Wherever he paused along the route he was besieged by organized groups of chil dren dancing, singing and showering flow ers on his party...