Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afterward, Kennedy delayed his departure to talk a bit longer with Khrushchev. Then, much as they began, the meetings ended with surface cordiality. The Soviets had not thawed?but they also had not displayed any disturbing belligerence. As in Paris, John Kennedy left Vienna without having made a binding pact or decision?at least none that was announced or hinted at. But in the private chats with Khrushchev, he had at least heard, untrammeled, the voice of the enemy. And having heard that voice, Jack Kennedy this week flew off, with an important London stopover, for home...
...through one of Khrushchev's favorite satellites, docile Czechoslovakia, where Khrushchev stopped now and again to accept the traditional bread and salt, and to promise that "the Soviet voice will always be the voice of peace." He also released news of a new $500 million trade and aid pact with East Germany, designed to ease the East Germans' heavy dependence on West Germany for industrial supplies and thereby clearing the way for a new Berlin crisis. But Khrushchev looked wan and tired when he alighted in Bratislava...
Postwar treatment of Germany by the Allies not only crippled the Weimar Republic and laid the basis for Hitler's rise, but also prepared the way for the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The West could not afford to treat two Great Powers as outcasts, Kennan says...
...before the Eastern Front, even if this necessitated everthrowing the Bolshevik government. But Kennan is somewhat obscure in ex planing why the intervention continued a year and a half after the end of the war. Similarly, Kennan tries to debunk the Soviet contention that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 was entirely due to the West's failure to stand up to Hitler at Munich. But one is left wondering whether there would have been such a Pact had the West done just that...
...that he was assured of strong United States support of the Common Market. He later termed as "unfounded" complaints that the U.S. economy might be hurt by European unity and added that United States exports to Europe continue to increase even after the institution of the six-nation economic pact...