Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
Some members have insisted on pre-inspection of their purchases-a shocking innovation in fraternal Communist economics. COMECON clearly needs reform, and Rumania's next target on the list of Communist sacred cows may well be the Warsaw Pact. Already, Rumania has unilaterally reduced obligatory service in its army from 24 to 16 months, and Rumanologist George Gross says it is "quite likely that the Rumanians (like the French in NATO) have balked at infringement of their sovereignty...
Organization pact, authorizing any or all of its eight members to resist aggression against the nations under its protective umbrella, including South Viet Nam. Referring to the Senate's 82-to-l consent to the treaty in 1955, Rusk gently reminded them: "All members of this distinguished committee who were then Senators voted for that treaty...
...Russian front, and the only image of Germany he can permit himself is that of a desolate landscape of expiation. He must deny modern German prosperity and seek a severer judge than history or time: himself. He is reconciled with his father only at the price of a suicide pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh...
Oglesby said that the fault with the policy formula was that it viewed history as an "interruption of wars by truces." He said that the policy rested on four assumptions; both sides of a global pact must agree that global warfare is an unsatisfactory way to solving the conflict, a truce line must be rigidly drawn, both sides must cooperate in maintaining the truce line. And, given the first three conditions, common interests between the two sides will gradually take root...