Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTHUR E. LINK New York City The Treaty Debate Sir: The signing of this "nonaggression" pact with the U.S.S.R. reminds me of one signed in the '20s-the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It did not deter the Japanese from building a fleet-and we sold them the scrap iron...
...matter what the pact failed to solve, it received an almost universally enthusiastic reception for what it did do. By week's end, ambassadors of about 40 nations had rushed to scrawl their names on copies of the treaty in Moscow, London and Washington. Some governments were so inspired that they had their representatives sign in all three capitals. More than 100 of the world's 117 sovereign nations are expected to sign eventually-even though most of them know perfectly well they may never have a nuclear device to test or call their own. Most notable holdouts...
...National Press Club, a reporter echoed such misgivings by asking Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman whether Russia's record of broken promises did not make the pact worthless. "That is a typical question of a semi-informed person," snapped Harriman. Then, as nervous laughter swept the room, he added: "If I offended anybody, I'm delighted." Chances are he offended a lot of people...
Mail to the White House was running 12 to 1 in favor of the test ban pact, but only 2,000 citizens had written to the President about it in a week, compared to 40,000 during the four weeks of the Cuba crisis. And several Senators reported that in their mail they had heard from as many doubters as rejoicers...
...items that Khrushchev wants to negotiate about. They include a ban on underground testing, though both sides still disagree on the number of international monitors and the freedom they would require to make inspections of suspicious blasts, and Khrushchev's nonaggression formula between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Beyond these issues, there are a batch of other Soviet proposals...