Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds vociferously carried the issue into the weekend's cantonal elections. They were rebuffed. The vote showed 61% of the French electorate in favor of the Atlantic pact, 15% (the Socialists) noncommittal, only 24% opposed...
...sound & fury failed. Kept alert by strong black coffee, sleeping by turns inside the chamber, the anti-Communists outlasted their opponents. By a brisk vote of 342-170, De Gasperi sailed through with authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
...Centers of Power. Clearly Russia and her minions were girded for a powerful polemical battle-not to stop the North Atlantic pact, since it was now an accomplished fact, but to weaken and delay its implementation, hinder its extension, sow distrust of its intentions. Beyond polemics there would be further pressure -among other places, in Eastern Germany, where the Russian occupation authority last week pushed the formation of a Communist state; in the Far East, where the victorious Chinese Communists denounced the North Atlantic pact, and declared that they would stand solidly behind Moscow in any future...
...Kremlin was surely more surprised by the speed and scope of the Atlantic pact negotiations than by the bare fact of its creation. In 1927 Stalin had postulated the inevitability of two hostile worlds. "In the course of further development of international revolution," he said, "two centers will form on a world scale . . . The struggle between these two centers for the possession of the world economy will decide the fate of capitalism and Communism in the whole world...
Security Is Indivisible. The Kremlin's White Paper on the North Atlantic pact also pointed out "contradictions and frictions," i.e., weaknesses which the faithful must tactically exploit, in the Western comity. Among them...