Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai...
...until a friend, Harlow Fraden, confided that he planned to poison his parents. To Wepman this sounded like fine material for a book. While Fraden tricked his parents into gulping cyanide-spiked champagne last August, Wepman lurked in the corridor, taking notes. They framed the murder as a suicide pact (TIME...
...pact obligates the U.S. to provide arms and training assistance, obligates Karachi in turn to use the assistance for defense only, not for aggression. Explained Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan, in answer to Russian, Egyptian and Indian objections: the agreement does "not involve a military alliance between the two governments nor . . . any obligation on the part of Pakistan to provide military bases for . . . the United States." New Delhi charged that Pakistan had already promised the U.S. secret air bases (and, indeed, in event of war they could be easily arranged). But India was no longer so suspicious...
Britain, Eden emphasized, is not interested in intervening in Indo-China under any circumstances. The British are willing to talk about a Southeast Asian pact after Geneva, but only a pact designed to guarantee what may be left of a partitioned Indo-China as a kind of buffer state-not to help the French fight on. Partition must come first...
...India, officials were rosily pleased to see the U.S. forced into a secondary role at Geneva. Nehru told his Parliament that a real model for Asian agreements was his new pact with China, in which India meekly accepted the Red Chinese conquest of its northern neighbor, Tibet. Nehru made clear to those who had missed the point over the years that India was not ready to join any alliance to resist Communist expansion...