Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imperialism. Last January U.S. Ambassador Merle Cochran sent the Mutual Security Pact offer across to Foreign Minister Ahmad Subarjo, duly received it back with a few marginal alterations by Indonesia. Now that the Mutual Security Agency has replaced the Economic Cooperation Administration, a few strings had been attached by the U.S. Congress: before getting those Yankee dollars, foreign governments had to acknowledge their adherence to "the free world." Subarjo disliked these conditions, but signed. A couple of days later two U.S. Army colonels went down to see Defense Minister Sewaka about another matter: a shipment of arms privately purchased...
...duel in which Canning was shot in the thigh; both then resigned. He did not return to office until Castlereagh's suicide, 13 years later. Canning encouraged liberal movements in Europe, used British naval power to keep France and Spain out of Latin America. He proposed a pact with the U.S.; President James Monroe instead unilaterally proclaimed a Monroe Doctrine. Later Canning made a famous boast: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance...
...threat of Russian expansion. Consequently, Hoover feels that we should withdraw American troops from Europe--leaving the Europeans to build up what ground forces they care to. Taft echoes this view as shown by his consistent voting record against aid to Western Europe since 1948, against the Atlantic Defense Pact, against appropriations to the Voice of America, and his attack on the Point Four Program. In view of the Senator's disastrous underestimation of the German and Japanese intentions in 1940 one might question his present evaluation of Russian capabilities and intentions; at any rate he has the advantage...
...East. In 1938 in Nanking, he figured in a red-hot diplomatic incident when a Jap sentry slapped his face; the Japs quickly apologized. Last year he acted as John Foster Dulles' assistant in the preparation of the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Pacific security pact...
Moscow's New. Times published a twist on the World War III issue of Collier's magazine (TIME, Oct. 29) and put out its own dream issue. Its theme: what would happen if the great powers signed a peace pact. Highlight was an article by U.S. Communist Author Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast. Said Fast: "It is suspected that a sharp fall of shares [after the pact] was not entirely accidental, and in two of the most conscienceless New York newspapers there was provocation for a Fascist coup . . . Prices fell . . ." But after the great day, Novelist Fast...