Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris agreement, such as it was, provided a cold war respite which both sides had wanted-though the Russians had probably needed it more than the West. If the West, lulled by the Paris agreement, relaxed its efforts to build up the non-Communist world, then the meeting would turn out to be a great Communist victory. If not, it would be just another skirmish in the long, cold...
...from the radio. You may hear that I have made a confession or other things ... Whatever happens, don't believe that I have surrendered . . ." He spoke in a clear, loud voice, tense with emotion. "I come to you and swear to you that I will never sign an agreement that violates the laws of the church...
Politics & Power. Despite basic agreement on principle, there is wide divergence on the subject of practical politics. "While we fully agree," says Barrois, "on the danger of a godless society, a godless state, and a godless school, we strenuously object to [Catholics'] jockeying for strategic positions so as to impose their own policies upon the nation . . . Rome has been particularly zealous in the fight against communism. But . . . consciously or unconsciously, she has never kept a clear distinction between communism as a system of economics, the materialistic ideology on which it thrives, and the pressure methods used to assure...
Wheat Deal. Under pressure of the second largest wheat crop on record, the U.S. ratified the international wheat agreement (TIME, April 4), which gives U.S. farmers an annual export market of 168 million bushels for four years. The wheat pact, which will cost taxpayers an estimated $84 million in subsidies to farmers for the first year's exports (because export prices will be lower than domestic support prices), goes into effect July...
Born. To Gregory Peck. 33, lanky cinemactor (Gentleman's Agreement, Duel in the Sun), and Greta Konen Peck, 32, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Carey Paul. Weight...