Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Lancaster House last week the foreign ministers of the Big Four gathered for one more try at a German peace treaty. The ministers no longer expected to discover much common agreement; so they were not astonished when the first week produced one more collision of East & West...
...defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity of taking a stand...
...delegation felt that rather too many escape clauses and loopholes had been written into the I.T.O. charter already. U.S. Chief Delegate Will Clayton said: ". . . The charter permits a greater measure of restrictionism than we believe wise, but we are willing to accept it if general agreement may thereby be attained...
Jinnah's government, living on day-to-day receipts, has tried some desperate salvage measures. It imposed a $5-a-bale export duty on raw jute moving from East Pakistan to the jute mills of Calcutta (in India). The tax violated a temporary free-trade agreement between the dominions. This would probably provoke retaliation from India, which could stop sending all coal and manufactured goods to Pakistan...
Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck in a powerful polemic against anti-Semitism in the U.S. (TIME...