Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed a pact with the Soviet Union. "Mr. Stalin," he had said, "I have complete confidence. . . . We have signed an agreement for non-intervention in domestic affairs, and I know you will keep it." Only a few days ago, he had again summed up his faith when he told a workers' delegation (which demanded the exclusion of anti-Communist parties from the government): "I strongly deprecate the exclusion of anybody from anything...
Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when...
...This promise was misleading. The Free Territory of Trieste was set up under the Italian Peace Treaty. Since its independence is assured by the U.N. Security Council, there could be no change in its status without agreement among all Big Powers...
...book will probably be received with polite but uneasy praise; his specific proposals will be picked apart by those who are nonplussed by his general principles. Most readers, however, will probably nod in agreement-and pass on, a mite more disturbed than before, to the daily chores of a world of expediency...
...economists reached substantial agreement" on measures for fighting inflation in a symposium conducted by the Economics Department this weekend for its publication, The Review of Economic Statistics...