Word: annulment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's news, the Western Nations should be able to take several long sighs of relief. There's no world crisis after all; the Russians are a law-abiding people--just as they've been shouting for years. On Saturday the U. S. S. R. took preliminary steps to annul its World War II friendship treaties with Britain and France. London and Paris had clearly acted in bad faith by signing agreements to rearm West Germany. Hadn't they promised Russia in 1942 and 1944 respectively to take joint action to prevent renewal of German aggression? They had also agreed...
...view of these patent dangers, it is distressing that the United Sates Post Office will soon ask Congress for even more effective controls over imported Soviet publications. When the request is made Congress should not widen the Post Office's censorship powers, but should instead take this opportunity to annul them...
...German Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl ordered "spontaneous" protest marches "to topple the Paris treaties." The Kremlin followed through with a flurry of diplomatic notes which fell like poisoned confetti on the capitals of Western Europe. Russia's Molotov warned the French government that ratification would "cross out and annul" the 1945 Franco-Soviet treaty of alliance. Britain was sternly advised that the presence of U.S. air bases in East Anglia is "incompatible" with the Anglo-Soviet treaty; six other NATO nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Turkey-were accused of giving support to "the dangerous remilitarization...
Flight to Argentina. In 1930 Getulio Vargas ran for President and got a majority of the votes. When the government tried to annul the election, Gauchos of Vargas' home state marched on Rio. Café Filho, fired by Vargas' eloquent talk of reform, joined the Vargas partisans in northeastern Brazil, took part in the successful seizure of Natal. Appointed police chief of his home town, with headquarters right next to the customs house, he soon noted the daily visits of a customs official's attractive daughter, Jandira Fernandes de Oliveira. In September 1931 he and Jandira...
...real No. 2 power seemed to be Liu, the party dogmatist, who was made head of "the highest organ of state power," the People's Congress Standing Committee. By constitutional definition, the all-powerful Standing Committee has the right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers...