Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson told what the U.S. was doing in Persia. A military mission with about 50 officers and enlisted men advises the Persians on problems of military administration. The mission's presence has been requested by Persia and is covered by an agreement registered with the U.N. Also on hand is a U.S. police mission, composed of twelve officers and men, who went to Persia in 1942 under Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf, former director...
...stuffy annex of the State Department last week, tired delegates of 42 nations pushed back their yellow leather chairs, faced each other around a horseshoe-shaped conference table, and cheered. After eight perspiring weeks of negotiations, they had reached a world agreement to "stabilize" the price and export market of wheat...
...agreement was full of ifs & buts, and it still had to be approved by the U.S. Congress and the other nations. But, in principle, it would provide a steady, four-year market for a maximum of 456 million bushels of wheat a year for five major wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum...
Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan, who signed provisionally for the U.S. (see cut), thought there was a much better chance of congressional approval now than last year, when a similar agreement died in the Senate. Then U.S. farmers, with wheat bringing $2.60 a bu., laughed down the proposed world price of $2 a bu. Now the price of wheat was down to around $2.25 a bu. and-with a huge carryover and another bumper crop in prospect-a price of $1.98 might soon look good...
What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...