Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, politicians howled with anger at the U.S. "America now needs Tito more than De Gasperi," they shouted. "What is the value of the Atlantic pact?" The cause of their rage was U.S. unwillingness to give full support to Italian claims on the Free Territory of Trieste...
...Vatican spokesmen did not believe that the Polish bishops had signed the agreement. Said a Vatican aide: "It is incredible that an agreement of this scope could have been negotiated without Cardinal Sapieha's knowledge. It could be only a dictate." Said another official: "The Communists describe the pact as a modus vivendi-a way of living. Actually, it is a modus morendi-a way of dying...
...sense, the case of Frédéric Joliot-Curie was the weirdest of the three. France, the democratic nations' chief ally on the Continent, receiver of nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars since the war's end, which had solemnly signed the Atlantic pact and was last week receiving its first shipment of U.S. arms, maintained an avowed Communist Party member as the chief of its atomic-energy program...
Last week Wheeler called a press conference, denounced the U.S. for the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic pact and "Wall Street cartelization." To the delighted Czech press he announced that he would formally ask for asylum in Czechoslovakia, where he had "got to know the real democracy...
After a prewar tour of duty in Lima, Peru, he was ambassador to Russia for nearly three hard years through the Hitler-Stalin pact and the Nazi invasion. Even when the Germans seemed likely to take Moscow, Steinhardt remained confident that the Russians would hang on. He laid in a 100-day food supply at an emergency refuge outside the city, an extra stock of surgical supplies, and prepared his staff for a long siege. President Roosevelt called him "a good fixer and boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany...