Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke this week as the Foreign Ministers of twelve nations gathered in Washington to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. The greatest network of short-wave stations in history beamed the ceremony in 43 languages to the world. The pact is a simple document, the President continued, "but if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939, supported by the nations which are represented here today, I believe it would have prevented the acts of aggression which led to two world wars...
Strategy and hard necessity had dictated the shift. The greater threat to the postwar world lay across the Atlantic, a fact recognized by the North Atlantic pact. Under a peacetime budget, the U.S. could no longer maintain overwhelming defenses in both oceans at once...
Ailing Ernest Bevin set off on the Queen Mary last week to be present in Washington at the solemn signing of the North Atlantic pact. Before he left Britain, speaking in the House of Commons, Bevin reviewed the position of the Western community in its struggle with world Communism. His incautious conclusion: in Western Europe, at least, the cold war has been...
...Russians is burly, demagogic August Hausleiter, a leading Bavarian Christian Democrat, who has just founded Germany's newest political movement, the nationalist "German Union." Hausleiter and his friends call for a "neutralization" of Germany between East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann's face. They are bringing Karl Radek...
...face of the U.S. surplus, the U.S. share of exports under the pact (168 million bu.) was comparatively small, though the cost to the U.S. might prove large. As long as wheat support prices are higher than the pact price, the Federal Government would have to pay the difference. In effect, it would subsidize the exports. Furthermore, importing nations would be required to take their maximum quotas under the agreement only when the price fell to the minimum. As long as the price was above that, they could buy from Russia or Argentina, if those nations wanted to undersell...