Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt by Sweden to organize a neutral bloc outside the pact collapsed when Secretary Acheson...
...Persuaded Finland to stay out of such a bloc...
Such an inflammatory issue, if it caught on at the last minute, could reduce the Liberals' share of Quebec's important bloc of 73 seats in the 262-member parliament...
What set McCarran off was a U.N. debate over restoring full diplomatic recognition to Spain. The Soviet bloc wanted the two-year-old ban continued; most of the Latin Americans wanted it lifted, and so did some U.S. delegates. But Delegates Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles were for continuing the ban. Result: the split U.S. delegation was told to abstain from voting...
...press. Last week, when the General Assembly finally approved the world's first treaty on the subject, it hardly seemed worth all the argument. The "Convention on the International Transmission of News and the Right of Correction" was just strong enough to make it certain that the Soviet bloc would never ratify it. But it was so weak that the U.S. would have little reason to ratify it either, after it is submitted to the nations for signature next fall...