Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, the government of Party Leader Gustav Husák declared a day of thanksgiving to the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations for saving the country from the counter-revolutionists by their invasion. Throughout Czechoslovakia, the government called meetings to push that theme. At a parade in Karlovy Vary, celebrating the conclusion of the largest joint Soviet-Czechoslovak military maneuvers ever held, even old President Ludvik Svoboda, once an ally of Dubček's, mouthed a party slogan: "With the Soviet Union forever, and never otherwise...
...anniversary, Husák was in Moscow, where he attended a summit meeting of the Warsaw Pact leaders. At the close of the five-hour conference, it was Husák who thanked the Soviets on behalf of the Warsaw Pact leaders present for calling the conference. He also hailed the renunciation-of-force treaty between West Germany and the Soviet Union, which was described in the conference communiqué as a step toward "relaxation and normalization." Since the Bonn-Moscow pact has been signed, nothing appears to stand in the way of a similar treaty between Bonn and Prague...
...second major study in this week's magazine deals with West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt and the Soviet-German renunciation-of-force pact. Five of TIME'S European bureaus contributed extensively to the story, which was written by William Smith, researched by Anne Tan and Isabelle Kayaloff and edited by David Tinnin. But primary responsibility for the reporting fell to Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who recently observed that "Willy Brandt in his own way has done what De Gaulle failed to do-build bridges in Europe." Gate provided an overview of Brandt's philosophy...
...Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of industrial penetration of the East by the West." German Historian Karl Kaiser said that it constitutes the first phase of a new security system in Europe...
...allied, during long periods of history, it was scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...