Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened in the cordial wake of the North Atlantic pact. Thus, before the pact was even ratified, it could already claim one massive achievement. The pact, and the arms program that went with it (see below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...bold, even risky step for the Secretary of State to take. Before the Senate could vote on the Atlantic pact (which requires a two-thirds majority), Acheson would be forced to ask a handout from a Congress which still hoped to get through the session without saddling a deficit on the country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
Arms for Europe, he explained, was a logical extension of ECA and the Atlantic pact, the final peg in a policy. But arms assistance was not directly "a product of the pact-an instrument which is not yet in effect." On the contrary, said Acheson, "even without the existence of the North Atlantic pact, the need for assistance and the recommended response of this Government would be the same." So, he concluded emphatically: "These requests and our replies therefore in no sense represent a price tag to be placed upon the pact...
Russia accused the North Atlantic Pact nations yesterday of plotting atomic war on the Soviet Union...
Competitors will be handicapped according to the type of two-wheeler they use. The race will begin at 10 a.m., but no announcement of a pact with the local gendarmerie has been made...