Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China," Winston Churchill told Parliament. "Until the outcome of the conference is known, no final decision can be taken on a collective defense pact in Southeast Asia . . . Her Majesty's government has not embarked on any negotiations involving commitments," and would not until after Geneva...
...April 11-14: Dulles flew to London, talked to the British about a broad defense pact in Southeast Asia, looking toward direct intervention in Indo-China if needed. The British were reluctant to act before Geneva, and Dulles could not guarantee the British that the U.S. itself would go ahead; he could only say that, if the British agreed on "united action," he would be able to ask Congress. The British agreed only to "examine the possibility." The French took somewhat the same attitude, though they still talked of an air strike. As Laniel explained last week: "All solutions which...
...Snapped one observer: "If the U.S. cannot take strong action without the approval of the British Parliament, and the British cannot act without the approval of Nehru, Western policy will be immobilized.") Last week Nehru told the British his decision: he was willing to associate in an Asian defense pact if everybody else joined too. By everybody Nehru apparently meant Communist China, and perhaps Russia as well:-a plan about as useful as penning up wolves with sheep. Belatedly, British foreign officials conceded that SEATO would have to get along without Nehru...
...RAIDING PACT between the C.I.O. and A.F.L. is on the rocks...
...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...