Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rostrum. "There have been neither threats nor blackmail on the part of our allies," he snapped. "But is it abnormal, is it surprising that our continual hesitations, our twistings and turnings, have troubled our allies? Let's not forget the past. Who asked for the Atlantic pact in the first place? It wasn't America. It was Europe. We feared that there would be no more American troops in Europe, or that the American troops would arrive too late." Bluntly, Faure warned: "We cannot always change our minds after having signed. M. Mendes-France asked with insistence, looked...
After Saturday midnight, voting began. Five amendments, designed variously to defer ratification until after an attempt at a disarmament pact with Russia, until the allies agreed on the arms pool, until France received "new guarantees" from its allies, were defeated by comfortable margins. Finally the Senate voted the accords themselves. The vote on the key WEU pact was 184-110, the others even more decisive...
...civil service that is amateur and an army still in training, the Premier of South Viet Nam is charged with building a government and a popularity strong enough to overcome the strength and skill of Ho Chi Minh's Communist regime in North Viet Nam. Under the Geneva pact, which sliced the country in two, the South Vietnamese have only 15 months to prepare to meet Ho's Communists in a nationwide test at the polls, winner take...
...Background. A fiercely independent people without natural east or west frontiers, the Poles had been four times partitioned among their stronger neighbors. Their anti-Russian feeling had been fanned anew by the fourth partition, the German-Russian Pact of 1939, which started the war. In addition, as Roman Catholics, the Poles were strongly opposed to Communism...
...Prosecution. Attlee plainly disliked it, but in his thin, waspish voice, he built up a case against the burly Welshman that could not be controverted. Bevan, said his leader, had publicly decried his party's support for the SEATO pact, West German rearmament, and disputed Attlee's endorsement of NATO's nuclear strategy...