Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read a speech appealing for support of his foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
...Regular Formula. Medina warned defense witnesses that they might be jailed for contempt if they refused to answer proper questions, cut them off sharply when they plunged into shrill attacks on Wall Street, the Ku Klux Klan or the Atlantic pact. "This trial would go on for an indefinite period if I received all the evidence offered every time two Communists talked to each other," he said...
Something of this same shoring up and pulling down was going on in the nation's foreign policy last week. In Europe the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff talked things over with their Atlantic pact allies and announced that there would be some kind of military organization by 1950 (see INTERNATIONAL). They were shoring up a Europe that had sagged in places, but fundamentally was built of sound material. In China last week the U.S. pulled out the final sagging props that had held up its policy, and a lot of decayed timbers were exposed in the process...
Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
...Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (he is 50), and earnest, bespectacled Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest in its defense...