Word: pact
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...This surge of Communist power alarmed the Eisenhower Administration, then engaged in trying to help President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring South Viet Nam preserve a pro-Western government against Red aggression. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had tried to seal off Southeast Asia by building the SEATO pact and encouraging anti-Communist allies. The U.S. Ambassador to Laos, J. Graham Parsons, distrusted Premier Souvanna Phouma both as a neutralist and a compromiser with the Reds. Withholding U.S. economic aid was enough to cause Souvanna's downfall, and he was replaced by a pro-Western Premier...
Died. Hans Luther, 83, astute onetime Weimar Republic liberal statesman, a chubby Berliner who as Finance Minister halted chaotic post-World War I inflation and as Chancellor (1925-26) put Germany's signature on the futile peace-seeking Locarno Pact, who agreed in 1933 to serve the Nazis as Ambassador to the U.S., was recalled in 1937 and lived quietly on his Bavarian farm until the Nazis finally fell; in DÜsseldorf...
...settlement, if it happens, will probably involve some of the devices that the U.S. cautiously broached to its allies three weeks ago: 1) a 13-nation authority to control access on the road, rail, canal and air routes to Berlin; 2) a nonaggression pledge between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations; 3) a joint promise to keep atomic weapons out of the hands of nations not now possessing them; 4) joint committees with East and West German members to discuss mutual problems...
...starring in a U.S.-Soviet co-production were heightened as U.S. Producer Lester Cowan and Soviet state film makers agreed to collaborate on a screen version of Novelist Mitchell Wilson's Meeting at a Far Meridian. Also making future missions to Moscow under a new two-year cultural pact that calls for more swaps of artists, students, newsreels, magazines. radio and TV programs: the New York City Ballet, the Robert Shaw Chorale and, for all those beat Bolsheviks, Swing King Benny Goodman. In return, the Soviets will export the Bolshoi Ballet, the Leningrad Philharmonic, the Ukrainian Dance Ensemble...
...Warsaw Pact. To those critics who thought that the U.S. should not have pushed matters to a split vote because it jeopardized the spirit of unanimity in the OAS, Rusk replied: "This is not a meeting of the Warsaw Pact. This is a meeting of the organization of free and independent American states." There were also mutterings that the four U.S. Senators and Representatives who buttonholed delegates, warning that the election-year mood of Congress was one of "No cooperation, no aid," had damaged U.S.Latin American relations. The Congressmen had pressed the point hard. But few Latin Americans seriously believed...