Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Royally rumpled in mufti, His Majesty Savang Vatthana of Laos arrived in Washington last week. This was the second stop on a tour of 13 of the nations signatory to the Geneva pact last year that guaranteed the "neutrality" of Savang's lethargic little kingdom. The first stop had been Moscow, and the Russians showered gifts, including slick Chaika (Seagull) limousines, on the King and his bland, bowing Laotian entourage. President Kennedy did not exert himself to exceed the Russians: he gave the King a desk set and an autographed photo of himself...
...week Bonn's new Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel officially scrapped the Europa Panzer idea, declared that West Germany would produce a flashy new tank of its own. French defense officials had gotten word of the decision long before their Charles de Gaulle had signed his new pact with Bonn. But the canceled deal was bound to set minds on both sides of the Rhine wondering just how useful their treaty really...
Neglected Conscience. Next day, at a caucus of the ruling Christian Democrats and their allies, Adenauer chided Erhard mercilessly for presuming to seek control of the government. When the Cabinet finally voted on Adenauer's demand that the Franco-German pact be ratified immediately, Erhard's nein was overwhelmingly defeated...
Item. About two weeks elapsed between de Gaulle's threat to blackball British entry into the Common Market and the execution of that threat. During this interval, Washington let it be known in Bonn that a delay in the ratification of the Franco-German Pact would be welcome to the United States. Such a delay, it was suggested, might give de Gaulle second thoughts about the blackball. Certain semi-official journalists were employed in this maneuver; it was possible to open any newspaper and read that the choice before Germany was between France and the United States. Although...
...possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest link between Bonn and the West, the surest guarantee against a revived German revanchism. Even advocates of British entry into Europe might think twice before trying to undo this link...