Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell the world that Stalin was a liar-and prove it. Instead, Jessup, using the palest diplomatese, gibble-gabbled: "If Stalin's reference to an agreed solution which subsequently was repudiated refers to any resolution agreed to by the three Western powers and the six neutrals, no such agreement ever existed. Therefore, there was no question of any violation...
...recent news from China crystallizes the utter failure of the two-year-old American policy. For that failure the Truman Administration is not wholly responsible. The Russians have not carried out their agreement at Yalta, namely to assist Chiang in setting up a democratic government for a unified China, Instead they removed Manchurian industries and supplied his communist enemies...
...list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because of its past ill-treatment of Mexican workers...
...Club. In Mexico City, Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet curtly announced last week that the agreement had been abrogated by unilateral U.S. action. In Washington, Chargé d'Affaires Rafael de la Colina delivered a protest which U.S. diplomats described as a "stemwinder." Mexico's press wrathfully asked whether U.S. agreements were scraps of paper...
...shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...