Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other conclusion was that even U.S. support of the Brussels pact (see INTERNATIONAL) would not prevent the rape of Western Europe unless U.S. military strength were increased sharply. Like Smith, Forrestal urged passage of U.M.T. He added a request for selective service, to fill the ranks until U.M.T. could get under...
...London, 71 M.P.s signed an appeal for the merger of Western Europe (see below). In Brussels, the defense pact between Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg (TIME, March 15) was ready for signing. Said Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "The moment is vital. . . . [But] the best treaty in the world is worth only what its execution is worth. A diplomatic formula is not hard to find. A military agreement is not hard to make. But economic collaboration between people . . . that is the obstacle which must be surmounted...
Britain, by agreeing to the Brussels pact, had waded in nevertheless. Last week there were signs that Britain was ready to take a full plunge. Many Britons were ready to go a lot farther. Seventy-one M.P.s signed a resolution got up by Australian-born Labor M.P. Ronald W. G. Mackay (rhymes with black eye) calling for complete merger of Western Europe and Britain in one federation. The seventy-one signers were members of all non-Communist parties; violent political enemies stood together on this vital issue. The resolution may become a historic milestone. It reads...
Something for the Nation. Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk certainly had no leanings toward Communism. But they were convinced that they must snuggle up to Stalin and try to take the middle path between East and West; they would be "realists." In Moscow they made the Soviet-Czech pact on Dec. 12, 1943. For the next four years Czech Communists, who now had the might of Russia behind them, jostled, maneuvered and crowded until they took over...
Last week President Juho K. Paasikivi named his negotiators for the Russian pact. Four were proCommunists, but three had said that they opposed a military alliance with Russia. To those delegates reluctant to make the humiliating Kremlin visit, Paasikivi said: "There is no question of whether you have any desire to do this or that. This is compulsory labor...