Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the State Department tried to get out of its dilemma. Secretary of State James Byrnes, saying he spoke for a majority of the American republics, offered to include Argentina in the pact as soon as Peron wiped out the "Axis influences" in his country. We wanted "deeds and not merely promises," huffed Jimmy Byrnes...
...best backhanded Soviet fashion, Stalin gave Russians their first news of the offer Ernie Bevin announced Feb. 21: to turn the 20-year Anglo-Russian friendship pact into a 50-year treaty. Stalin said that Churchill's warmongering speech made the present pact "an empty scrap of paper." He implied that he no longer considered it valid himself: "Problems of the duration of a treaty have no sense if one of the parties violates the treaty...
...which the U.S. and Britain had highhandedly agreed to give Russia concessions in the territory of their ally (see INTERNATIONAL). Chinese indignation was heightened by the continued failure of Soviet troops to honor their pledge and quit Manchuria. Seven high Government officials had signed a petition denouncing the Yalta pact as a "dark stain" on U.S. and British relations with China...
...Stalin's help in the Far East was to be rewarded with the Kuril Islands, an "independent" Mongolia and all Tsarist Russia's Far East rights. Roosevelt promised to get China's concurrence. This Yalta deal was the basis of last year's Sino-Russian pact (TIME...
This upset the French, ready to sign an air pact with the U.S. The French, no more ready than Britain's BOAC to compete with U.S. airlines, were not so sure now that they wanted U.S. airlines flying into their country at such low prices...