Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent. Without some kind of international agreement, wrote the President, the Antarctic might well become a dangerous source of "political rivalries." Last week, after a series of secret preliminary meetings, the world's first Antarctic conference opened in Washington-and paradoxically enough, the international climate had seldom seemed so warm...
...peninsula claimed by the British under the name Graham Land is O'Higgins Land to the Chileans, and San Martin Land to the Argentines. More important yet was the fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should not become an object of political conflict and should be open for the conduct of scientific investigations." At week's end it seemed a foregone conclusion that the twelve nations meeting...
Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen capped his two-year tour of duty in Manila by concluding a base agreement that satisfied both Filipino pride and U.S. security requirements...
Under a 1947 agreement, long denounced as unfair by Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...
...return, the U.S. will keep its four biggest Philippine naval and air bases-Subic Bay, Sangley Point Naval Air Station, Clark Field and Camp John Hay-as well as three lesser installations. Philippine President Carlos Garcia, who clearly intends to point with pride to the base agreement in the forthcoming Philippine off-year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador...