Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, 48 hours before he and Churchill took off for the Washington Conference, Eden in the House of Commons (see FOREIGN NEWS) struck at the heart of U.S. policy in Asia by proposing a "Locarno pact." A key provision: defense against further Communist advance in Asia would rest upon a Communist promise not to advance. This speech, flung in the teeth of President Eisenhower's statement that what he wanted from the Reds was "deeds, not words," advertised-deliberately or otherwise-a basic split between Britain...
...Germany to go to war to change that fact, but we don't feel we should sanctify it." Eden's Locarno proposal would mean sanctifying whatever peace terms the collapsed French may concede in Indo-China, Dulles said. He explained: "If we entered into a Locarno-type pact in Asia, we would be pledged to maintain this Communist system." The meeting concluded with "generalized" agreement that a defense network for Southeast Asia ought...
...trouble to conceal their suspicions and their differences. While they debated whether or not to begin now or later a study to decide whether to consider drawing up a pact to protect Southeast Asia, Chou was already engaged in urging some of the prospective members (India, Burma, Indonesia) to sign non-aggression pacts with China...
Among the factors which led him to this conclusion. Borden wrote, were Oppenheimer's long record of close Communist associations which survived the Russian-Nazi pact of 1939, his financial contributions to Communist causes, his false statements to security officers, his stand on the H-bomb...
...world and to admit that we have failed. I say this with infinite regret, but it is our stern duty to face realities." In London the Foreign Office hinted that now Britain would be willing to press ahead with plans for a Southeast Asia pact...