Word: pact
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Recent months have seen a series of favorable world developments directly connected with U.S. foreign policy, e.g., the end of the oil dispute in Iran, the easing of tension around the Suez, the settlement on Trieste and the London pact. Last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was in Paris for the final signing of the historic agreements negotiated three weeks ago in London. At week's end he sent a jubilant wire to the President: "I am happy to inform you that everything . . . has been signed, sealed and delivered. I know you will rejoice with me that...
...speak for Asia was in question. "Meetings between the Prime Ministers of India and China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru's supporters...
...pouring half a billion dollars in aid into Yugoslavia. But they are only nervous, not alarmed. They don't trust Comrade Tito, but depend on his cold-blooded assessment of his own cold-blooded interest. Necessity made him join with Greece and Turkey in a military pact, which indirectly binds him with the West's NATO alliance...
...Directions. Increasingly petulant of late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME...
...medical checkup, a Columbia honorary degree and a tribal welcome from the Blackfeet Indians. This week in Washington he will confer with President Eisenhower on "matters of mutual interest." This month the U.S. plans to send Pakistan its first arms shipment under the new mutual-aid pact...