Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weissberg, an Austrian citizen, was handed over to the Gestapo in the Russo-Nazi exchange of political prisoners after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. His later experience in Gestapo prisons (he now lives in Paris) forms no part of this book, which is one of the most searching, intelligent studies of its kind to date, replete with scores of prison case histories and exemplary samples of cool-headed observation. The key question in it (which has haunted Weissberg for years) is the great why? Why, he asks again & again, did Stalin decide to destroy not only a horde...
...policy there. The U.S. pants along behind each crisis, tossing a handful of money here, a political concession there. At the height of the Egyptian crisis (the worst possible moment), the U.S., Britain, France and Turkey invited Egypt to join a defense pact. The invitation was promptly rejected...
...Gibbons, Taft, in a discussion that centered around foreign policy Phillips argued that "no book writing can cover up Taft's voting record," and then listed five "short sighted" opinions of Tafts', ranging from his voting against the Selective Service Act in 1941, to his opposition of the Atlantic Pact Point Four, and Marshall Plan in more recent days...
...secret that SCAP's proposals for carrying out the terms of the security pact amount to little less than straightforward continuation of many aspects of the occupation. Ridgway's advisers would like to keep the Dai Ichi Building (No. 1 symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese...
...Neutrality. Most thinking Japanese recognize that the security pact is as much if not more to Japan's immediate advantage than it is to the U.S.'s. They know that Japan has, as yet, no army, navy or air force; and that the U.S. will defend them if they are attacked. But there are dissidents, daily growing more vocal, who want no part of the U.S. protection or alliance. Three completely divergent groups-the liberal intellectuals, the resurgent militarists and the Communists-are united, for different reasons, in a cry that Japan remain neutral between the free West...