Word: cede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bartender in one of the very best hotels) ran a Spanish blockade to deliver his cargo of arms to the Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie, as one of the directors of the new British North Borneo Company, moved into a mud hut and kept a sharp...
...Berkshire cottage, where he has to get on his knees to blow up the fire. The Ranee was in London, celebrating at Giro's with their three pretty daughters. In the House of Commons came an announcement. Ailing, 71 -year-old Sir Charles Vyner Brooke had decided to cede his Sarawak state to Great Britain for one million pounds...
Also featured in the Progressive is a statement by Professor Santillana of M.I.T., endorsed by Harvard's Salvemini and La Piana, revealing for the first time "reliably reported" Allied-Italian armistice terms. According to the article, Italy will cede the entire eastern shore of the Adriatic to Yugoslavia, certain territories to France, and Pantelleria and other islands to Britain. The article places emphasis on the reported economic terms...
...Russians want a strong and friendly Poland; according to Polish sources, the British have unofficially urged the Polish Government in Exile to cede the Pripet Marshes to Russia, keep the important city of Lwów, and presumably compensate themselves in East Prussia and German Silesia. In the Balkans, Russia will want a strong voice in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria, where Soviet influence is strong...
...Rumanians' bitterness at these losses was heightened by the fact that Bulgaria, one of the two nations to which Rumania was forced by the Axis to cede territory, was not fighting Russia at all, and that the other, Hungary, has sent fewer than 150,000 troops to fight Russia...