Word: pact
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Before the Senate. If a test ban agreement emerges from the Moscow meetings, it will raise complicated problems for the U.S. A final test ban pact would take the form of a treaty, which would require a two-thirds approval by the Senate-and a test ban would certainly encounter some resistance there. Among the NATO allies, Germany undoubtedly would have deep doubts and reservations, and Charles de Gaulle would almost certainly act as if a U.S.British-Russian ban were a scrap of paper...
...NONAGGRESSION PACT. Khrushchev declared that "at the conclusion of a test-ban agreement," he will revive Russia's hoary demand for a nonaggression pact between the 15 NATO powers and the satellite nations of the Warsaw Treaty. In the past, this proposal has invariably been rejected by the West because West Germany and France object that it would imply Western acceptance of a divided Europe and recognition of East Germany. In any case, they point out, no such declaration is needed, for NATO's defensive purposes were guaranteed in its charter 14 years...
...then, is the West so eager to sign a nuclear pact with Russia? Rightly or wrongly, Washington has come to view a test-ban treaty as the touchstone of Soviet intentions. If this one outstanding issue can be resolved after five years of frustration, the State Department believes, then there is hope that East and West may ultimately be able to settle other issues. Though Harriman is empowered only to negotiate a test-ban agreement, he expects to "explore" other cold war problems, such as Berlin and Russia's failure to enforce the Laotian neutrality pact. On those matters...
...will open a trade mission with embassy status in Warsaw, and negotiations are under way to open a similar mission in Hungary. Beitz has also initiated trade talks with Rumania; rumors persist that his visit with Khrushchev in May will lead in time to a new German-Soviet trade pact. Beitz is neither a profits-at-any-price executive nor as Red-Starry-eyed as the U.S.'s Cyrus Eaton, but he argues that "the great transition in the Soviet orbit is toward a consumer's society, and I don't think that this...
White Tie & Tales. An early and devoted disciple of Peacemaker Aristide Briand, Laval was a tireless negotiator of disarmament treaties. When these failed, he turned to his own grand design-a chain of mutual assistance pacts between France and all the countries that ringed Germany. As French Premier and later as Foreign Minister, Laval haggled his way through the capitals of Europe. Wearing his famous white tie and eternally rumpled blue suit as a trademark, he was a grotesque but effective figure, despite a deplorable tendency to try to cap anyone else's punch line. (When he praised...