Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg (TIME, March 15) was ready for signing. Said Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "The moment is vital. . . . [But] the best treaty in the world is worth only what its execution is worth. A diplomatic formula is not hard to find. A military agreement is not hard to make. But economic collaboration between people . . . that is the obstacle which must be surmounted...
...House of Commons last week up rose Harold Wilson, chubby President of Britain's Board of Trade. Said he: "The negotiations between His Majesty's Government and the representatives of the American motion picture industry have resulted in an agreement." This was good news to Hollywood, which had in part blamed the 75% British tax on U.S. film profits for inciting to panic (TIME...
Last week, as they unfolded the terms of their agreement, Johnston and Wilson beamed fondly at one another. Said Wilson admiringly: "Johnston was a tougher negotiator than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest...
Three events of crucial importance, he pointed out, made the way an appropriate one for a discussion of Western Europe's future. President Truman's speech on American foreign policy, the signing of the Western European agreement in Brussels, and the opening of debate on the Czechoslovakian situation in the Security Council are of the highest significance...
...Kleffens emphasized the fact that the big problem in Western Europe today is not economic but political. Production in all five of the nations that signed the agreement in Brussels,--Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg--is increasing rapidly...