Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contribution to a Western defensive system through NATO, why not disengage, and be ready when a suitable moment arises to act as mediator? It is very much the same sort of attitude as Western European Communists and fellow travelers adopted in 1939, after the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet pact. There was no point, they argued then, in getting involved in an "imperialist" war. Better stand aside, and in due course social revolution would undo Hitler's conquests. Nor, it is worth recalling, was it the inherent fatuity of this position which led them to change their attitude...
...aggression pact with Russia...
...H.A.A. also argues that schedules are a two-part pact, but any prep school or local freshman team will be willing to play on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning; Princeton and Yale run their schedules in this way and find little trouble...
...does, that the soundness of the money must be assured, balancing the budget will always remain a goal. But he does not say, the President added, that the budget is going to be balanced on June or July 1, 1955. ¶ On the possibility of a nonaggression pact with Russia, and the report that Adlai Stevenson had brought him a personal appeal from Winston Churchill for a top-level international conference: the possibility of a pact was being studied, said the President; yes, he added, inscrutably, he had received personal greetings from an old friend...
Popular superstition had long suspected him of a pact with the devil: How else could a man do with a violin what Paganini did? The Genoese enshrined his Guarneri in the city hall-though they were still uneasy about its late owner, and the Pope himself had to launch an inquiry into Paganini's orthodoxy before he could be buried in consecrated ground years later...