Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Assembly decided, 40 to 6, that the U.S. atomic control plan (Baruch plan) was the one the world needed. It officially hoped (also 40 to 6) that the Big Five and Canada would find in it a basis for agreement. Said Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "We can immediately give a reply-there is no such basis...
...There is nothing," averred Dr. Samuel Johnson, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern . . ." Last week he found agreement in an interesting quarter...
According to the terms of the proposed agreement, all three gentlemen will sit down to a meal and whoever loses foots the bill. The local due are convinced they can upset Yale's answer to Man-mountain Dean because they boast palates "conditioned by copious amounts of Army chow, Southern barbeque, and Cambridge beans...
There has been and probably will continue to be substantial agreement among the leaders of both parties on the following prepositions: that no useful purpose will be served by reopening negotiations with Russia on the many issues that divide the world until it becomes clear that the Soviet Union is ready to take negotiations seriously and is willing to make concessions as well as to receive them; that the best--in fact, the only--way to bring this situation about is to convince the Soviet Union that the postwar expansion of world Communism and Russian influence has about...
...representatives of a policy which must continue to be bi-partisan. If it had been so cleared, there is much to be said for the proposed action. It indicates, I think, that the President, while maintaining a firm position vis-a-vis Russia, will continue to seek an eventual agreement...