Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...network of Atlantic Pact councils, committees and other bodies, the powerhouse will be a three-nation "standing committee" (the U.S., Britain, France) with headquarters in Washington...
...Senate, the answer to one question was supposed to be down in black and white, in the Atlantic Pact. But there was violent disagreement on what the fancy script meant. The question was: "Does the treaty commit us to arm and aid Europe's armies?" (An old question in a new context). Senator Taft, respected for his brains, answered, "Yes." Senator Dulles, respected for his brains, answered, "No." The rest of the Senators, some respected, some not, weren't agreed either, but they voted for the Pact. An arms bill may pass the Senate, but what the original treaty meant...
...Ground. At External Affairs, St. Laurent quickly made it clear that despite his background and training in nationalist Quebec, he was international-minded. He was one of the first statesmen to promote the idea of the North Atlantic pact. When the idea became a diplomatic reality, he sold the pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec...
...dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign...