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...four days the two statesmen reached agreement on most major points, ended the conferences with mutual expressions of satisfaction and a joint rejection of Russia's proposed conference. On a few items there was no accord: Dulles, for example, firmly refused to commit U.S. military equipment for European defense to an international arms control agency; for his part, Mendès could not promise that U.S. matériel would not be used in putting down the North African violence. One major item-U.S. aid for South Viet Nam-was postponed until after General Lawton Collins, the special...
...agreed beforehand to push three Socialist measures. Unwilling to have his hands tied, Mendès said he would study the conditions until his return. He arrived in Quebec looking his usual assured self. After all, the Socialists, with almost no debate, had agreed to support the Paris accord for the new German army, which should assure its passage...
Confrontation. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer returned from the U.S. to find not only his opposition but leaders in his own coalition loudly complaining that he had given in too much to France on the Saar. Opportunistic Thomas Dehler, who had accepted the Saar accord in Paris on behalf of his right-wing Free Democratic Party, had changed his mind back in Bonn. There were elections soon in Bavaria and Hesse, and political profit to be made by attacking the agreement. Not to be outdone, the small Refugee and German parties began outshouting Dehler. Scornfully, Konrad Adenauer dressed...
...Noting that Guatemala's long-term contracts with the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. and International Railways of Central America exempted them from new taxes, Castillo Armas expressed a tactful hope that "foreign companies will make a contribution of their own accord...
...part of PBH, he ignores the fact that such organizations withdrew from the house voluntarily between thirty and forty years ago. They did not take "piety" with them when they left. The remaining social service committee became, in effect, the Association, expanded in many directions, and in perfect accord with PBH endowments, encouraged religious projects from time to time...