Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finesse of a lucky Bridge player, Harold E. Stassen has captured needed prestige for the United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government is a partner easily displeased...
...route to the heart and mind of twentieth century Asia. And one of the largest reefs in the way of real understanding is a false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister Nehru and his top U.N. delegate, Krishna Menon, seem at first to be following a foreign policy that is consistently "neutral on the other side of the fence...
...remove these forces, except in cases of "an acute overseas emergency," without the consent of a majority of the Brussels pact powers, including ex-enemies West Germany and Italy...
...gloom persisted throughout an evening session, in which, confessed a British spokesman harsh words were exchanged." Mendès wanted the Brussels pact powers to control the distribution of U.S. arms aid to Europe. Dulles flatly refused. The Frenchman also insisted that he did not object to the Germans making "submachine guns and cartridges," but did not want them building tanks and planes. At that, the Germans demurred. The usually impeccable Eden emerged from the fourth day's session with his hair ruffled and his face damp with perspiration...
...achieve reunification [of Germany]." The Dulles-Adenauer compromise provided that: 1 ) Germany would agree to make no ABC (atomic, bacteriological and chemical) weapons, build only enough conventional weapons to arm its twelve divisions; 2) NATO would set minimum force levels for all its members' armies, 3) the Brussels pact powers would by unanimous vote set maximum force levels for each national army. The French would thus have a veto on any German effort to add to their twelve divisions...