Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikolajczyk writes: "Stalin . . . was angrier than I had ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very...
...sign-ins for women guests, with parties until 9 p.m. will be the rule for all Houses over the Yale weekend, according to an agreement reached this week by a meeting of the seven House-masters...
...Communist minority in Palestine that may someday threaten the government. Controlling only about 20 per cent of the vote at present, this Communist segment balloons each time Israel is rebuffed by the United States and Great Britain. And in the economic sphere there is increasing agitation for an oil agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply all the oil Haifa could handle at a nominal price. The single hitch...
Jersey Standard and Socony, both signers of the famed Red Line agreement* of 1938, had persuaded their British and Dutch partners in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. to agree to waive any claim to a share in Jersey Standard-Socony's take from Aramco. But Gulbenkian, the only Red Liner who had signed the agreement as an individual, stood firm. For wangling the original concession in Iraq from the Turks in 1911, he holds a 5% interest in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. He doggedly insisted that the Red Line agreement still stood; he wanted...
...Lisbon, where he now spends most of his time in his luxurious suite in the Hotel Aviz, Gulbenkian pronounced himself well pleased. Though the agreement will run through 1967, Gulbenkian expected to be around to enjoy it; his father lived to be 110, his grandfather...