Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffmann believes that de Gaulle is blocking Britain's application to the E.E.C. because of doubts that the British are serious about joining. The French President, in Hoffmann's view, interpreted the Nassau Pact to mean that Britain prefers the United States to Europe...
...international level: the neutrals, the emergent nations, the smaller powers, the Bandung Pact countries, the underdeveloped and the non-aligned. Also the Afro-Asian bloc and the non-nuclear club...
Then what? Tory backbenchers are loudly skeptical of what they call "the small type" in the Nassau pact, which stipulates that Britain's Polaris submarine fleet, except when "supreme national interests intervene, must be committed to a truly multilateral NATO force. Does that mean that Britain will eventually have no strike force of its own? Who will decide when or whether national interests justify withdrawal of submarines from NATO, particularly if those national interests conflict with U.S. policy? The biggest question of all is whether France's inclusion in the offer was a deliberate ploy by Jack Kennedy...
...solved, there would be little hope of defending the subcontinent against Chinese aggression. As they pointed out, four divisions of crack Indian troops had been tied down along the cease-fire line; Red China was trying to play Pakistan off against India by offering the Pakistanis a non-aggression pact. No longer counseled by ousted Defense Minister Krishna Menon, who obsessively regards Pakistan as India's main enemy, Nehru finally agreed to write Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, suggesting top-level talks on Kashmir. Ayub promptly assented. This, of course, was no assurance that the two foes would...
...interested to accept our hand. If friends let us down, we shall not consider them as friends. Friends that stand by us, we will stand by." He did not have to look far for new friends. From Peking came an offer from Chou En-lai for a nonaggression pact between Red China and Pakistan, as well as an invitation to Ali to visit the Chinese capital to discuss arbitration of the border problems between the two countries. With almost indecent haste, Ali accepted the invitation...