Word: pact
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because of the pact, McKay said the likelihood of a united Germany seems more remote than ever. "The Russians might have been willing to go along with a neutral West Germany, but never with West Germany...
McKay said that the French Socialists will probably vote more in a bloc for this agreement than they did for the EDC pact which was defeated earlier. The failure of the Socialists to vote as a body was one of the principal causes of EDC's downfall...
...decide whether strategically prized Cyprus should remain British or go to Greece. The U.S., on the spot between its anticolonial instincts and its Allies, abstained in both cases. In balloting that joined Latin Americans, Arabs and Israelis with the Communists and split the five signers of the new Manila Pact three ways, the Assembly voted to take up both cases...
While eight nations met in Manila and signed a mutual defense pact, while Attlee and his band of traveling Laborites padded about Communist China, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sat in the wings, grumbling softly. But last week the Asian stage was clear of intruders at last, and Pandit Nehru stepped forth to tout his own magical formula for getting peace in our time...
Until now the Soviets have loudly advocated an immediate outlawing of atomic weapons and a general agreement that would make war a moral crime. Like the ill-fated Kellog Briand pact of the 'twenties, this scheme gave no guarantee of enforcement, and even if carried out, would have left Russia with a decisive advantage in conventional weapons. The plan also dodged the touchy problem of general disarmament. While the current proposal does remove some of the United States' objections, there remain many pitfalls in Russia's two stage plan for arms reduction...