Word: accords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courts have ruled that the mere existence of a potential monopoly can be cause for conviction under the Clayton Act, La Buy said: Such a possibility existed for 30 years in the relationship between Du Pont and G.M. But "the record discloses that no restraint of trade has resulted. Accord ingly . . . there is not. . . any reasonable probability of such a restraint within the meaning of the Clayton...
Florida's Democratic Senator George A. Smathers, a counselor for the U.S. delegation, added to the consternation by declaring himself in "full accord" with Fulton. Henry Holland, State Department chief for Latin American Affairs, growled that "under our system [Fulton] has a right to say anything he wants." Peppery U.S. Ambassador James Scott Kemper poured oil on the fire by canceling the Congressman's invitation to a Rio embassy reception just as Fulton finished dressing for the party...
...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...