Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invited 23 nations to a conference on European collective security. They included the U.S., and suggested that Red China come as an observer. They also included East, but not West Germany. They named a date-Nov. 29-candidly admitting that it was picked to forestall ratification of the Paris pact, scheduled for debate by the French Assembly Dec. 13. "Such ratification would complicate to a great degree the entire situation in Europe," warned the Russian note, and "would mean that the unification of Germany . . . would be sacrificed to the present plan of restoring German militarism...
Time to Talk. In other words, Russia could not be allowed to frustrate or delay the West's building strength. Once the Paris pact is safely ratified, the West's Big Four would be ready to listen and to talk. The parley at the summit, so long urged by Churchill, may yet come off. On his recent visit to Washington, Adenauer told Dulles and Eisenhower frankly that since Germany can be unified only by agreement with Russia, as a political necessity he must seek talks once West Germany has received its sovereignty. Somewhat reluctantly, Dulles and Eisenhower pledged...
...that effective Viet Minh control now extends through 85% of the country almost to the gates of the capital, Saigon-where the Nationalist administration of Bao Dai is disintegrating. The Viet Minh are also deeply embedded in Laos (pop. 1.1 million), a state theoretically protected by the Manila Defense Pact. The Viet Minh have assassinated 87 Nationalist leaders in South Viet Nam and the Defense Minister of Laos...
Early this year, Aneurin Bevan, the Labor Party's aging Young Turk, decided that the time had come to stake his ambitions on what seemed to be two surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...
Last week the showdown came, but not the way Nye had foreseen. What had looked like promising issues ("No Guns for the Huns") in the spring, turned out to be lost causes in November. In a quiet, closed-door session, the Labor M.P.s agreed overwhelmingly to back the Manila Pact, and afterward Nye did not even bother to appear in the House of Commons when it won easy approval. A few days later the second blow fell: in another private session the Labor M.P.s voted 124 to 72 to support German rearmament. When the Bevanites began their insurrection, they...