Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cloud. George Marshall dealt with Korea with the same abruptness. "For about two years the U.S. Government has been trying to reach agreement with the Soviet Government ... in bringing about the independence of Korea. . . . The independence of Korea is no further advanced." He invited the 55 nations of the Assembly to take up that problem, now blocked by a U.S.-Soviet stalemate...
Successful government at any level, national or supra-national, requires a certain area of agreement among the governed. And Mr. Vishinsky demonstrated rather conclusively that up to now there has been no meeting of minds between the leading citizens of Washington and Moscow. The successful functioning of a supra-national government also requires the existence of supra-national loyalties, which are not present except to a very limited degree...
...Young was rapped himself last week by the Office of Defense Transportation. In nationwide advertising last month, Young had cried that some railroads, particularly those with routes between Chicago and California, deliberately slow down freight trains by mutual agreement to eliminate competition. Replied ODT: in the first half of 1947, all Western roads maintained faster freight-train speeds than Young's C. & O. Countered Young: "Statistical lies," inspired by the prejudiced ICC, of which ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is a member...
...Russians had their own reasons for not wanting Europe rebuilt. In Berlin, Soviet Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky greeted the new industry-level announcement with cries that the U.S. and Britain were "dismembering Germany . . . rupturing the Potsdam Agreement...
Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...