Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must not be stopped by any hesitation about the possibility that the Russians may come into the war," Taft insisted.† The U.S., he argued, had not let any such hesitation stop it in concluding the North Atlantic Treaty (Taft at the time had dourly warned that the pact would be interpreted by the Russians as "an aggressive move"). Taft wanted to send "such airplanes and warships as might be necessary" to support a Nationalist invasion of the Chinese mainland, bomb Chinese bases, but confessed to some reservations about a naval blockade...
...proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved of General MacArthur's program," though Taft had fought to weaken the draft, to restrict troops for Europe, to scuttle the North Atlantic pact on the ground that it might be provocative to Russia...
...taking over his command of the Western European land forces under General Dwight Eisenhower at SHAPE. Juin, planning to fly back to Morocco, was still confident that he could bring the Sultan around, hold Morocco for France, avoid a national insurrection which would be a danger to the Atlantic pact. The dialogue would continue...
...rearmament and to keep the welfare state afloat. More than a third of Britain's budget will go for rearmament ($4.2 billion, compared to $4.5 billion to be spent on social services), a defense outlay second only to the U.S.'s among the twelve Atlantic pact members...
...said Gromyko, he wanted the agenda to include the Atlantic pact, U.S. bases in Europe and the Near East, Italian treaty violations, and the question of denazification and treatment of war criminals in Germany and Austria...