Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa Citizen: "Such a [defense] pact is obviously useful both to the United States and to the South American nations. But it would make complications for Canada. This Dominion has its own defense understanding with the British Commonwealth and the United States. No treaties are needed to assure us that in the event of an attack upon our shores the British Dominions and the United States would spring to our assistance...
...Canadians thought Canada had her head in the sand. Said the Montreal Gazette: "Elementary geographical considerations dictate the significance that the Petrópolis treatymakers will attach to Canada's signature to the hemispheric defense act. Without Canadian acceptance . . . the pact will be largely ineffective except as a statement of good intention...
Cadogan told the Council that unity of the Nile Valley, one of the cardinal notes in the Egyptian appeal, is a "myth." He contended that the Anglo-Egyptian 20-year pact which runs until 1956, is legally in force and that the Council should drop Egypt's charges...
...where Bulgarian Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov received him with an old Stalinesque gesture (see cut) and a new-found sartorial nattiness. This week, Dimitrov himself journeyed to Belgrade, where he conferred with Communist Premier-Marshal Tito. Said Dimitrov on his arrival: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are linked in brotherhood. A pact of "friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance" between the two countries was "contemplated in the near future...
...last week, the fear of a new wave of inflation from the coal wage pact became great enough to bring a special plea from President Truman to businessmen. He asked industrialists to withhold immediate increases in the price of coal and in the price of steel, "until the actual increases in costs are determined. It is only reasonable," said he, "to ask coal and steel producers to wait until a fair test has been made...