Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...State Department's real feelings in the matter. To express them to the nation, Acheson had already called on Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Speaking before the Jewish War Veterans in Manhattan, Infantryman Bradley made the point with soldierly precision: "Although the North Atlantic pact is an agreement on policy for our common defense, it is evident that policy without power is like law without enforcement ... A military assistance program is obviously an essential sequel to the pact...
...meeting in Peiping last month for the first time in four years, formally decided that the period of agrarian communism-Mao's policy-was over, that emphasis would now shift to the cities and to speedy industrialization. At least on the face of it, Mao was in complete agreement with the new line. If he was turning into a Tito, he gave no evidence...
Under the agreement Ivy will receive a "considerable sum" from the Madison Agency in return for exclusive four-year rights on the film. Ward, president of Ivy Films, stated that the proceeds would easily enable the company to modernize and expand its equipment and operations with plenty left over...
...since last Christmas the U.N.'s harried Palestine mediation staff has wistfully eyed some cases of champagne which no one had the heart to open. Last week in Rhodes Mediator Ralph Bunche happily ordered the crates broken, and the champagne corks popped. Israel had just signed an armistice agreement with Transjordan, the only Arab country whose troops were still a real threat to peace in the Holy Land...