Word: cessions
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...Cession of a strip of Manchurian territory to North Korea...
...Cession of historic Corregidor as a war memorial...
Citing the cession of unjust rights to Italy in South Tryol, which were based on the World War I mistake of Wilson, and the abortion of Italy's just claims in Trieste, Salvemini said that the results of the conference were the product of the more prevalent type of power politics, foolish power politics...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...