Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply was courageous, and it kept Norway's feet on the ground. It told Russia placidly that Norway would investigate the conditions for joining the Atlantic pact, that she would not grant bases to foreign powers unless attacked "or subjected to threats of attack...
...told the isolationist nervous-Nellies that Norway alone "is not and cannot be militarily strong enough" either to discourage or fight off an attack by a great power. Whatever Norway decided, she would decide herself; he would bring back to the Storting the detailed conditions for joining the pact...
Lange's proposal-that the Atlantic pact be thoroughly studied-won the support of virtually all of the Storting except, of course, the Communists. Several non-Red speakers, however, said that not too much time should be lost in the study...
...another stern note from the U.S.S.R. Bulldozed Russia: Norway had "failed to give a clear reply" about foreign bases; Norway was guilty of a "suggestion that a threat of attack could emanate from the Soviet Union"; Norway should, "to eliminate any doubt," sign a non-aggression pact with Russia...
Russia's offer of a non-aggression pact must have given Lange pause, for Russia's road of aggression against half a dozen small states was strewn with broken non-aggression pacts (just as Hitler's road had been). Yet Lange did not cancel his trip; instead, he pocketed the note, snapped that he would "study it and reply in due course," and took...