Word: pacts
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...Secret Pacts. Twice before in this century, Germany and the Soviet Union have come to diplomatic agreements. The first time was at the Rapallo Conference of 1922, at which the Weimar Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union reached a rapprochement. More significant, the infamous (and short-lived) secret pact engineered by Molotov and Ribbentrop in 1939 was called a "nonaggression pact," but its main consequence was to allow Germany to attack Poland, thus plunging the world into...
...have since made a lot of progress. We have entered into the era of negotiations. We have encouraged the West Germans to negotiate with the Soviets. With our British and French allies, we are talking to the Soviets about the easing of tension in and around Berlin. The Warsaw Pact countries have indicated that they would be willing to talk about mutual force reductions, and the next NATO meeting will concern itself with that. We are talking to the Chinese Communists. All this is progress...
...acknowledging resolutions of the United Nations against apartheid, Harold Wilson banned the sale of British arms to South Africa in 1964. The Tories indicated that, if elected, they might agree to resume arms sales for "external defense," as provided for by the Simonstown Agreement of 1955. Under that pact, Britain had sold some $50 million worth of warships in return for naval base facilities on South Africa's strategic coast...
Sovereignty was indeed the heart of the matter and the chief reason for the fact that the friendship pact, which supersedes a 20-year treaty begun in 1948. remained unsigned for two years. At first the Rumanians held off in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Later it was the Soviets who delayed, partly to express their displeasure over Nixon's visit but more importantly to try to persuade the Rumanians to accept a new paragraph recognizing the Brezhnev Doctrine, which justifies Soviet intervention anywhere in the "socialist commonwealth." Ceausescu rightly saw the doctrine as a threat...
...official Soviet news organization, insists that this would obligate Rumania to help defend against any Chinese attack on Russia; the Rumanians, who have remained determinedly neutral in the Sino-Soviet struggle, point out that the preamble of the treaty limits military obligations to the area covered by the Warsaw Pact -which does not extend beyond Eastern Europe...