Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
...Hoffman asked an additional $1,150,000,000. These figures did not include military aid to Greece and Turkey, nor aid to China, which is now on a "day-to-day" basis; nor did they include whatever the U.S. would spend as the arsenal of the North Atlantic pact. The bills for these measures would come later...
...cold for a week, Halvard Lange, Norway's Foreign Minister, headed home for Oslo remarkably unruffled. Lange had been sent to the U.S. by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) to find out just what it would mean to Norway-put & take-to join in the proposed North Atlantic defense pact...
Peter succeeded to the Yugoslav throne in a sudden palace move to avoid ratification of an extremely unpopular pact with Germany which had been pushed by regent Prince Paul. Almost immediately after, Peter fled by plane from the country and has never returned...
...Washington on Monday he conferred with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who was preparing to make public the substance of the North Atlantic Defense Pact as tentatively drafted by the seven powers.* It provides that an attack on any of the signatories is an attack on all. In return for this protection, Norway would be asked by the Western powers to discuss joint defense with the powers and submit to them her armament needs...