Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Residuum: "Action." What would the U.S. do under an Atlantic pact, he had asked, if Russia should attack Norway? Secretary of State Acheson was polite but unequivocal, as he explained that only the U.S. Congress could declare...
While Lange was conferring, the U.S. Senate had also given him the answer. After six months of negotiations, the Atlantic pact powers had agreed that an attack upon one nation was to be regarded as an attack upon all. Each nation was required to take "military or other action" to help the nation attacked. Senators Connally and Vandenberg balked, insisting that the word "military" be cut out, making the clause read that the parties would take "action...
Lange also learned from Acheson that the U.S. was not certain just how much armament help Norway could get if she joined the Atlantic pact; the whole problem of allocating arms to Western Europe was still under study...
...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...
...Orphan Alliance. France and the Benelux powers had not been reassured by the week's developments. These were the countries that had been the first to sign up in the Atlantic pact group. Originally they had insisted on a U.S. promise that it would go to war in their support. Later they had compromised, comforting themselves with the fact that between them and the Red army were U.S. occupation troops in Germany; presumably the U.S. would fight if its own forces were attacked. No such token shield protected Scandinavia, Western Europe's left flank...