Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brussels Fair's 470 foot-wearying acres, comparing the U.S. exhibit to those of other nations, European visitors seemed far more approving of the U.S. exhibit than Americans. (One unplanned highlight: the U.S. exhibit offered large numbers of comfortable free chairs for weary visitors.) Americans were in unanimous agreement that the U.S. Pavilion building, designed by Architect Edward Stone (TIME, Mar. 13), was a delight-even Letter Writer Robertson praised...
...also got sympathetic consideration of the Philippines' longtime request for a status-of-forces agreement to grant Philippine courts jurisdiction over off-base offenses committed by Philippines-based U.S. servicemen in the style of the U.S.'s status-of-forces agreements with Japan and other allied countries. And he also got a flat and unequivocal guarantee from President Eisenhower that "any armed attack against the Philippines would involve an attack against United States Forces stationed there and against the United States and would be instantly repelled." Summed up the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos Romulo: "Mission accomplished...
...launch this plan-unlike a disarmament agreement-we do not need Russia, nor do we trust her word. She can hurt only herself by her failure to cooperate. Here only actions would count, and all could evaluate those as we go along developing peace under law. An idea can be more powerful than any atom...
...Australia, where Britain has an atomic testing ground, the Sahara Desert (presumably the French portions) and Communist China. Hedge No. 2: Suspension of tests alone would mean little without inspection against surprise attack, suspension of nuclear war production, limitation of conventional arms. "I would anticipate that any agreement to suspend testing, if made, would not be an isolated agreement, but be a part of other arrangements . . . All suspension of testing means is that the arsenal of nuclear weapons that you have is accumulating without any exact knowledge as to what the consequences of their use would...
...experts, argues persuasively that while the free-world money supply has increased fourfold since 1938, gold stocks are up only 40%. To make this comparatively small amount finance the growing volume of world trade, says Busschau, the price should be hiked, not just by the U.S. but by world agreement so that all currencies would remain the same in relation to one another...