Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigeria, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, wincing at accusations that he is a British stooge, canceled an Anglo-Nigerian defense pact that many fiery patriots considered an infringement of the nation's new sovereignty. The treaty, which Nigeria had to accept when it won independence in October 1960, gave the Royal Air Force base facilities and freedom to fly over Nigerian territory at any time. It was a vexing contract that Sir Abubakar's friends as well as enemies have sharply criticized; henceforth, Britain must apply in advance for specific military privileges, each time negotiate with...
...anyone who fought fascists must somehow be good), the Moscow trials (which rent the united front and so outraged Veteran Revolutionary Max Eastman that the comrades accused him of accepting $25,000 from the British Secret Service to slander Russia), right up to the great awakening -the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. The great love affair was over. Extreme cruelty has been charged by both parties...
Waugh's hero. Guy Crouchback, the square and serious scion of an old landed Catholic family, joined the Halberdiers with shining purpose and an oath on the sword of Roger of Waybroke, saintly crusader of the 12th century. To Guy, the Nazi-Communist pact had seemed to simplify things: "The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome there was a place for him in that battle...
Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that started World...