Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer of peace. His real purpose quickly became clear. The good words had been timed to present Soviet Russia as a seeker of peace at the moment when the Western nations were concluding an alliance against Soviet aggression. Russia thus hoped to make the defensive North Atlantic pact look like an offensive act, and perhaps an unnecessary one. But while giving soft answers to a U.S. correspondent's questions, Russia at the same time was making big bear noises at little Norway (see INTERNATIONAL...
Would the U.S.S.R. join with the U.S. in measures to implement this pact, "such as gradual disarmament?" Stalin's answer was "Naturally." Acheson pointed out that the U.S. demobilization had been "not gradual but . . . precipitant." With other U.N. nations, he said, the U.S. had supported attempts to settle disputes peacefully, to establish an international police force and international control of the atomic bomb. Their efforts were blocked by Soviet vetoes and intransigence...
Next morning the guests learned what Lange had known all during the party-that Russia had peremptorily questioned Norway about her joining the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact, in effect had warned her to stay out of it. Scandinavia's period of fence-sitting was coming to a close...
...plan was Sweden's-a slight retreat from her long isolation and neutrality. The idea was that the three countries would arm as a unit, with the U.S. giving them the arms. They would thus be not quite in the same boat with the Atlantic-pact West, but would be hanging onto the gunwale, treading water...
...Foolscap Sheets. Next day Halvard Lange discussed the Soviet note with Norway's cabinet. The note emphasized the fact that Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...