Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt by Sweden to organize a neutral bloc outside the pact collapsed when Secretary Acheson...
...Congress could make sure of that pleasing change of affairs, said Acheson, by ratifying the North Atlantic pact, and by passing the $1,130,000,000 arms program to back it up, before adjourning. But Dean Acheson also knew that there was another explanation of Russia's seeming docility in Europe. The Russian bear had his mind on other game...
...justices sometimes viewed the official opinions of their brethren on the court with the sharp, scornful rejoinders of political debaters: "Puts another weapon in the hands of the criminal world." "Converts the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." "I give up-now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.' " Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves...
Wheat Deal. Under pressure of the second largest wheat crop on record, the U.S. ratified the international wheat agreement (TIME, April 4), which gives U.S. farmers an annual export market of 168 million bushels for four years. The wheat pact, which will cost taxpayers an estimated $84 million in subsidies to farmers for the first year's exports (because export prices will be lower than domestic support prices), goes into effect July...
Seven-in-One. Chambers was taken back & forth over the old story of espionage. He confirmed previous testimony as it was read back to him-how in 1939, two days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as a repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that...