Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov said: "Under the Potsdam Agreement, reparation deliveries of equipment from the Western zones of Germany are provided for in respect to 20 Allied countries . . . including the U.S.S.R. [So far they have] received such equipment to the amount of $33 million only. ... Is it not a mockery...
...Truth: The Potsdam Agreement did not say how many dollars' worth of reparations anyone was to get; it allotted Russia 25% of the plants that would be removed from the Western zones, on condition that the Russians ship a certain amount of raw materials from their own zone to the West. Russia has received more than 50% of all the plants removed, but has delivered no raw materials so far. She also consistently blocked Germany's economic unification, which, in the U.S. view of the Potsdam Agreement, was a condition for reparations shipments from the West...
Ambassador Frank Hines represented the U.S. last week in signing an agreement giving the U.S. 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. But the Panamanian Government had to work fast to have a signer (Acting Foreign Minister Francisco A. Filos) on hand for the ceremony. Rather than put his name to the agreement, Foreign Minister Ricardo J. Alfaro had resigned...
...Next day, primed by pep talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...
...plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...