Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of this editorial hopes that Secretary of State Acheson will be unsuccessful in obtaining an arms program to accompany the North Atlantic Pact. His points...
Speaking for the Council, Schwebel will urge acceptance of the treaty with seven reservations. His main point will be that the pact should not be turned into a purely regional alliance or be allowed to weaken the UN or take over all of the functions of that body...
...some advice on what they should or should not do, in conscience, about the treaty. When Acheson finished reading a 40-minute summary of what the treaty was about, Connally asked the chief question that was bothering him and some of his friends. If a Senator voted for the pact, would he be committed to vote later for the $1.13 billion arms program to back...
...effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars...
Latinos who had looked to the arms bill to solve their problems now knew that the program proposed to put guns in the hands of signers of the North Atlantic pact, as well as five other strategic countries outside the Hemisphere. Awareness that the U.S. could not arm the whole world at the same time did not soften the blow. It only aggravated the soreness already caused by U.S. preoccupation with other areas as evidenced by EGA. One attache blurted out: "We Latin Americans have been getting the leftovers ever since the end of the war. Now it seems that...