Word: accords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within 48 hours...
Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...Harold Stassen proclaimed his divergence from Bob Taft and from "those in my party who do not like to think in terms of world responsibility." He was loud in his praise for Arthur Vandenberg, "a great American statesman, in recent years." Said Stassen: "I find I am more in accord with Vandenberg on both foreign and domestic issues than I am with any other Republican leader...
...Will there be war? . . . The best chance of avoiding war is, in accord with the other Western democracies, to bring matters to a head with the Soviet government . . . to arrive at a lasting settlement. There is certainly enough for the interests of all if such a settlement could be reached. . . . Even this method . . . would not guarantee that war would not come; but I believe it would give the best chance of preventing it, and that, if it came, we should have the best chance of coming out of it alive...
Editor Pope did not think the press would like what he proposed: "Thin-skinned people suffer a lot but they are prone to improve. . . . Your victims will respect you, and accord you whatever praise and gratitude you may earn...