Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, it was finally and formally agreed that China's struggle was indeed part of the world struggle against Communism. The agreement came after repeated pleas from men like Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the State Department's Policy Planner George F. Kennan. The only value of this belated acknowledgment would be in its public proclamation-to tell the world that Washington had at last waked up to the fact that "coalition" with the Communists always led to Communist control...
...Concession to the Dead. Bridges had been itching for the showdown since last spring. He was restrained for 80 days by an injunction obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction ran out last week, shippers offered Bridges a carbon copy of the agreement which had been accepted by East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes unions: let the hiring halls operate as before, until the courts rule on their legality...
...over a month, the fate of Berlin had been wearily discussed in Moscow. Then, one night last week, the Western powers' special envoys relaxed: they went to see Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina. They had achieved "agreement in principle" (TIME, Sept. 6) with Russia. Now, like a pea in a shell game, the problem was passed back to Berlin, where the four military governors of Germany were instructed to work out an agreement in practice...
...none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists on leaving a few fishhooks in the agreement. We're trying to file the barbs off them." At week's end, they were still trying...
...Kremlin "agreement in principle" was a considerable diplomatic achievement. Although the path it laid down was littered with ifs and buts, still it could lead to an end of the Berlin crisis and even to a four-power conference...