Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive in Korea spurred Western Europe into action. At Fontainebleau last week the defense ministers of the Brussels pact nations (Britain, France, Benelux) agreed to increase armed forces and .speed war production...
...when Stalin was TIME'S Man of the Year for 1939. Said TIME: "The signing in Moscow's Kremlin on the night of August 23-24 of the Nazi-Communist 'NonAggression' Pact was a diplomatic demarche literally world-shattering ... Comrade Stalin was there in person to give it his smiling benediction, and no one doubted that it was primarily his doing. By it Germany broke through British-French 'encirclement,' freed herself from the necessity of fighting on two fronts at the same time. .Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath...
...hard. Without changing a word, the House Foreign Affairs Committee rushed through the Senate's bill authorizing $1,222,500,000 for second-year military assistance to foreign nations ("Woefully inadequate," declared Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland with post-Korean wisdom), and called for a Pacific pact modeled on the North Atlantic pact. The Senate Finance Committee, after talking it over with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, regretfully shelved the bill to cut excise taxes. Thirty-five Senators (including five Democrats) backed a 10% cut in all non-defense appropriations, including ECA. Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...bookish man, plain and homely, he holds to concrete propositions which he pursues with earnest intent. He was pursuing a concrete proposition a year ago when, pleading for military funds for the North Atlantic pact nations, he said: "With our allies, strong or weak as they may be, we face a long period of tension . . . We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternately press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the signatory powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution ... is born of fear and selfishness, and of such meanness that all despise it. Our rise to leadership must...
...Latin American governments responded to President Harry Truman's first statement on Korea by offering their cooperation. Argentina's Juan Peron rose to the occasion by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to complete the long-delayed ratification of the 1947 Rio Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The pact was swiftly approved...