Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area of agreement has been reached," said the Paris reports one minute. Next minute the word was: "Complete deadlock." The outcome of the Big Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
Cabled TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre: "If any agreement comes out of this conference, it will only reflect the realities of the present position; it will not create new realities. The fact is that in Europe the West is stronger than Russia. Either the Russians, who are usually realists, will accept that fact and make a deal favorable to the West, or they will refuse to accept it, and keep on fighting the cold war, in which case they ought to get progressively weaker in Europe...
Against that background the OEEC group met last week in Paris. Their assignment was to renew or to change the Intra-European Payments agreement, which runs out this month. Britain's objective was to make the new plan as much like the old as possible. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche were expected to carry the ball for the liberal Harriman position...
...even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing the artistically and financially ailing Met. Said Bing: "I have not the slightest idea. How can I have before I have learned all about the Met?" Bing and the Met reached an agreement last month, but withheld the announcement for three weeks...
When Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province 2½^ months ago, U.S. airlines feared that things would be changed at Newfoundland's Gander airport. There, under the "Bermuda Agreement" with Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...