Word: cessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fretted by Congressional demands for permanent American control over naval, troop and air bases already under leases to the U.S., House of Commons members asked Winston Churchill for assurances that Britain will keep her own.* Said he, with sharp finality: "There is not the slightest question of any cession of British territories - not the slightest...
...must extend the Monroe Doctrine. . . . Let us in friendship and with generosity and equity of consideration endeavor to procure a cession ... to ourselves or to our South American neighbors . . . [of] every foot of American soil now flying the flags of nations across the seas ... to the end that America shall be wholly American . . . and wholly secure...
...Cession of land in the Dodecanese Islands and west of the Dardanelles would be a prize for Turkey, despite protestations that Turkey wants no territorial gains...
...appealed to the powers who had treaty obligations with her to redress her grievances. Mute was their response. It was the beginning of tacitly appeasing the subtle aggressor. Finally, Japan again by force annexed Korea in 1910 and gracefully announced that the Emperor of Korea made complete and permanent cession to the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over Korea and the Emperor of Japan consented to annex Korea...
...independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported assassinated. Even Red Dog Antonescu was warned to stay quiet or he would be killed. But he was bold enough to put under protective arrest onetime Premiers George Tatarescu, Constantin Argetoianu and Ion Gigurtu, who acquiesced to the cession of northern Transylvania last summer (TIME, Sept...