Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles has planned Pacific security with four stout walls: the peace with Japan; a defense arrangement allowing U.S. garrisons in Japan until that country can defend itself; a mutual defense pact with the Philippines; a similar pact with Australia and New Zealand. Washington is reasonably confident that huffing & puffing will not blow the walls down...
...likely to forget it... Eisenhower was picked up by the extremely wealthy internationalists comprising the board of trustees of Columbia University and was named president of Columbia. But Truman kept showering favor upon him . . . When the Administration determined to send American troops into an Atlantic Pact army in Europe, Eisenhower, with the support of the Truman Administration, was given the job of commander of the European Army...
...Russians last week fired their biggest gun yet in their new peace offensive. In a letter to President Truman, Russia's President Nikolai Shvernik proposed a five-power pact for disarmament and "for the strengthening of peace." Wrote Shvernik (a figurehead who rarely makes the front pages): "I take this occasion to request you to transmit to the American people my greetings and good wishes from the people of the Soviet Union . . ." He added pointedly: "A most important step must be the elimination of discrimination with regard to the Soviet Union on the part of the American authorities...
First noticeable fly in the peace ointment : the proposal does not specify which "five powers" are supposed to sign the peace pact, but probably intends Red China to be one of the five. Much of the message reads like all other Soviet "peace" proposals, but it also includes a muddily worded suggestion for prohibition of atomic weapons and "establishment of inspection over the implementation of such prohibition." In the past, the Russians have fought any proposal for inspection tooth & nail. There was enough bait in the proposal to make the West look up with interest-and caution...
...Petsche, 55, hard-working Independent making his second try at forming a government, pleaded with the Assembly for unity. "Can we remain without a government," he asked, "at a time when ... a new balance of power is emerging in the Pacific? Can we go, insufficiently prepared, to the Atlantic Pact conference in September . . .?" The Assembly rejected Petsche...