Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no validity to the Russian claim that the Foreign Ministers' Council should have jurisdiction over a Japanese treaty. The Potsdam Agreement setting up the Council was made while Russia was at peace with Japan, and is therefore concerned only with European peace settlements. Nor was it true that Russia, together with the other powers of the Foreign Ministers' Council, had borne its share of the Pacific war. Australia and the Philippines had both done more to defeat Japan than the Russian Johnny-come-latelies...
Britons had pinned high hopes on a successful trade deal with Moscow. To help ease the drain on Britain's U.S. dollar credits, they wanted grain and timber in exchange for British machinery. After weeks of tough bargaining, agreement seemed at last in sight...
...view of the almost constant Republican violations [of the Dutch-Indonesian truce]," said the Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook, "The Netherlands Government cannot further be bound by the truce and agreement, and retake their freedom of action...
...risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have to eat it.") Last winter he headed a delegation to London to sign the British agreement to give Burma independence. After A.F.P.F.L. won a big majority in the spring elections, Aung San was in line to become Burma's first Prime Minister...
...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...