Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their defense, Adler and Draper said they had supported Allied causes during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Adler testified that he was a Democrat, a New Dealer and a loyal U.S. citizen: the fact that Government agencies had named certain organizations as Red fronts did not make them so as far as he was concerned. Draper just as vehemently maintained his loyalty. He thought, he said, that Stalin "has gone out of his mind." He said: "Never in my whole life have I ever deliberately advanced the cause of Communism ... It hurts people and it hurts nations...
...grey, stone-walled New York Stock Exchange. Inside, on the crowded trading floor, there was no gloom, only pent-up excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...
...Germans have two good reasons for submitting their production to the new bi-national authority. For one thing, the present quota which is severely limiting their steel production would be steadily relaxed. In addition, the new agreement would virtually nullify the French-Saar pact which has caused so much resentment in Germany...
...Western diplomat, "-if the Russians really wanted a peace treaty." After 3½ hours of futile talk in London, the foreign ministers' deputies of Russia, Britain, France and the U.S. pushed back their chairs one day last week and broke up the 252nd parley over an Austrian peace pact...
...wrote it. and I don't mind the look of it now." And he is never so enmeshed in the making of history as to lose his sense of humor. Because of F.D.R.'s success in getting Moscow to underwrite religious freedom in the United Nations Pact, "I promised Mr. Roosevelt to recommend him for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury if he should lose the next Presidential election. I did not however make any official recommendation to the Cabinet or the Crown upon this point, and as he won the election in 1944 it did not arise...