Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States will risk more by staying out of the proposed North Atlantic Pact, now under an air of secrecy in Washington, than it would by joining, government Professor Bruce Hopper said in a speech before the Massachusetts League of women Voters at Radcliffe last night...
...U.S.S.R. In effect, the U.S. and Canada were joining themselves to the others, who had already formed a Western Union under the Brussels Treaty (TIME, March 15 et seq.) and picked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to mastermind their joint defenses. "The combined resources of the Brussels Pact nations cannot at this time provide enough military strength to assure effective resistance to aggression," the State Department said. "Because of its preponderant strength, support by the United States is essential...
Would Congress ratify the pact? The State Department was hoping that Congress still felt as it did last June, when by a 64-to-4 vote it passed the Vandenberg resolution, encouraging the President to negotiate with other Northern Atlantic nations. The pact would certainly preserve the right of Congress to declare...
...front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust in the Politburo...
...livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying of royalties into union-controlled welfare funds. The solution, approved by Attorney General Tom Clark: an independent fund with a nonunion administrator...