Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history. "On the eve of World War II, the so-called Western democracies conducted a double-faced policy," he cried. "They sought to prod Nazi Germany against our country . . . It was the perfidious policy of the ruling circles of Britain and France that impelled us to conclude a nonaggression pact with Germany in August...
More recently, said Hoxha, "Malinovsky [Soviet Defense Minister] attacked the government and the party during the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...
...Pals. Hoxha's performance was a devastating revelation of the strains within the Communist bloc, leading some Western experts to suspect that little Albania may by now have been tossed out of the Warsaw Pact and isolated from the rest of Moscow's family. Recently, five Soviet submarines moved out of the Adriatic and were sighted moving through the English Channel en route to Russia. Western intelligence experts are not yet sure of the significance of the move, but they consider it conceivable that the Russians may have decided to shut down their big sub base and shelters...
Tasting blood, the Socialists announced that next week they will send still bigger crowds into the streets in demonstrations designed to protest against the U.S.-Japanese security pact signed last year and, if possible, to prevent Premier Ikeda's departure for an official visit...
Iron Curtain, negotiated a nonaggression pact with Fidel Castro. He promised to let a Fidelista political party organize and sent flunkies around the country making leftist speeches. Son Ramfis faces the certainty that of all Dominican opposition factions, the Communists and the Castroites are best organized to fill the power vacuum left by his father's death...