Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skilled military specialists and technicians," unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 35, will be accepted. The men are not to serve in national groups, but will be brought to the U.S. for basic training and then sprinkled into existing units. No German nationals, no citizens of Atlantic pact or Marshall Plan countries are eligible. After five years of honorable service, each man will automatically become eligible for U.S. citizenship...
Suddenly, Representative Keene asked Russo what the meaning of "cosmopolitanism" was. Before Russo opened his mouth Rep. Donlan screamed, "It means a man's a JEW, doesn't it?" (Hisses from the audience.) "The Hitler-Stalin pact came from a desire to slaughter the Jews. You're dripping with Jewish blood, aren...
...happens that TIME believes that Spain ought to be included in the Atlantic Pact. Because we believe that, we might (with some logic) refrain from printing anything Franco wouldn't like...
NATO. Washington, while warmly praising Turkish bravery in Korea, refused to commit itself. Last week the Turks tried another tack. Turkey's Ambassador in Washington formally invited the U.S. to join the British-French-Turkish mutual-assistance pact of 1939, which obliges the three nations to "lend all aid and assistance in their power" in case one is attacked...
Since Haiti and the Dominican Republic have long been two of the world's worst neighbors, it seemed a surprising reconciliation. Back in 1937 the Trujillo soldiery massacred 20,000 migratory Haitian workers; afterwards Trujillo quietly paid the Haitian government $750,000 damages and signed a peace pact. Eleven years later, he was allowing nightly broadcasts by an exiled Haitian calling on his countrymen to revolt. Barely a year ago, after a Haitian appeal, the Organization of American States found Trujillo guilty of fomenting another plot against Haiti...