Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section of humanity, dwelling in the Kremlin, got no such spiritual uplift from the pact. Russia sent a formal protest to each of the sponsoring nations, denouncing the treaty as an unfriendly, aggressive act. To their separate notes of protest, the Russians got one brisk reply, issued by all twelve-the first joint action of the North Atlantic nations. Said the foreign ministers to the Kremlin: "The text of the treaty itself is the best answer to such misrepresentations and allegations...
...determined to work together to provide better lives for our people without sacrificing our common ideals . . . But we cannot succeed if our people are haunted by the constant fear of aggression and burdened by the cost of preparing their nations individually against attack. In this pact we hope to create a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression-a bulwark which will permit us to get on with the real business . . . the business of achieving a fuller and happier life...
Great Step. Laborite Bevin also dropped in at the National Press Club and won reporters' applause by his simple, rough-hewn ways/and his defense of the pact. Said Bevin: "To would-be aggressors, it says: 'Think twice-think thrice' ... I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world...
...object of Jenner's wrath was the $5.5 billion authorization bill to carry ECA through its next 15 months of operation (see INTERNATIONAL). All week long a little knot of Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
...made a speech at Fulton . . . Many people here and in my own country were startled and even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...