Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pact came just in time. With the Coop fight. Dietz had reached an apogee of protest. Simultaneously he joined the fight to save the Memorial Drive sycamores from the MDC and the fight to save North Harvard Street from the BRA. He even, for the purpose of writing a letter to the Herald Tribune, formed the Society for the Preservation of the United States for Human Beings...
...Lowlands convinced them that the United States was in danger, but there were also factions that continued to object to a declaration of war against Germany and its ally the Soviet Union. These groups, including the Harvard Student Union, did not support intervention until the Nazi-Soviet pact was shattered. As Hitler's armies rolled into Russia, the Student Union suddenly turned a complete about-face and came out strongly for an immediate declaration of war against Germany and the rapid dispatch of American troops to Europe...
Undergraduate organizations proliferated on both sides of the neutrality question. The American Student Defense League was formed to "arouse and prepare students for American defense" and to urge an Anglo-American pact. The Harvard Student Union emphatically opposed involvement, as did the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention. Conant's frequent public speeches helped polarize the issue. On a speaking tour of the South in October he called for immediate and complete American armament; in November he said that no limit should be put on our aid to the Allies; by May, on a national hookup, he urged immediate entry into...
...terms of the Soviet proposal, the U.S., not being European, would be excluded. Such a conference would also imply de facto recognition of East Germany. Thus the notion was ignored in the West, except by the Danes, who may well broach in Brussels a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact conference-including the U.S. But Washington has an antipathy to any major conference in which the outcome is cloudy, and even the Danes cannot see any way around the problem of East Germany's representation at such a gathering...
...agreed to help the Russians build a 600,000-cars-a-year Fiat plant, Renault announced it will help the Russians expand their Moskvich plant near Moscow from a current production of 80,000 or 90,000 cars a year to around 360,000 cars by 1970. Under a pact that is likely to be signed when De Gaulle visits Moscow later this month, the Russians will pay an estimated """ million to $100 million for Renault's equipment and know-how-on longterm, low-interest credit...