Word: according
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking observers believed that Chiang was willing to make further concessions if he could find the solution to one all-important question: if the Government and the Reds reached a new accord, what was to prevent the Reds from violating that too, creating another "changed situation" and demanding a still higher price for the peace China needs? Said a high Government official: "[The Communists] want us to agree to an unconditional truce, because this would legalize their attempt to overthrow the [military] agreement...
...failure is complete, the peace conference, scheduled for May 1, would have to be postponed. The Russians had significantly requested that the word "peace" be dropped from its official title. And last week Paris, which had eagerly spruced up for the great occasion, sadly announced that the chance of accord was so slim that invitations to the waiting delegates would not be sent out yet. In 21 countries, some 800 peacemakers wondered when & if their services would be needed...
With such a formula, parity prices will rise of their own accord, need no urging...
...accord was reached on the critical matter of exchange of raw materials and food between the U.S. and Russian zones, nor in establishing a unified currency, telephone and telegraph communications. Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, the Soviet negotiator, had scowlingly refused even to discuss the issue of removal of machinery from Korea...
While the pens of labor & management squiggled and flourished signatures to contracts affecting thousands of workers, the week's tiniest accord was signed in Chicago. Mrs. Ralph Bettman, a housewife, and Lillie Mae Add, her maid sat down to solve the labor problem in minuscule...