Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
...small nations, even outside of the Communist sphere, however, thought that such a resolution could do not harm, and might even lessen the international tension. After the Russian recognition of China's Communist government, the U. S. State Department concentrated its attacks on the impossibility of a Big Five pact under the new conditions...
...Andrei Vishinsky had thumped indefatigably, through eight weeks of U.N. meetings, for Moscow's version of "peace." His loudest bang, echoed by ing" noisy from whacks the at Western Communist "war-monger-propaganda machine around the world, was a proposal for a five-power non-aggression pact...
...veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin: "If the Soviet Union is ready to perform these essentials, then [Russia's proposed] five-power pact is not needed. If it is not ... the pact is a hollow proposal...
...Germany, Lippmann insists, the peril is Germany's "historic tendency" to join up opportunely with the Russians. He believes, therefore, that the Atlantic pact should be a shield as much against a revived Germany as against Russia; he would exclude from the pact a belt of neutral buffer states running from Scandinavia through Western Germany, Austria and Italy. Two weeks ago Lippmann expressed his fear that the State Department is planning to make Britain a junior partner in a close U.S.-British alliance, leaving Germany dominant in Europe...