Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott the conference. Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering Parliament that he opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...
Asked by a newsman last week to confirm a reported statement that she was through with romance, Ava replied calmly: "Why no, that must have been somebody else...
Golden Falcons. Discounting all that must be discounted in a carefully staged, carefully controlled performance, their reports confirm the West's knowledge of Russia's impressive air strength: at least 20,000 first-line planes, about 50% of them jet fighters and light bombers, the rest World War II prop-driven models. Careful estimates put Russian production at about 8,500 new planes each year, almost twice the current U.S. rate. Western intelligence has some hints of Russia's far advanced research in supersonic speed ranges and armament; its hundreds of air bases; its large pool...
...Japanese Treaty (TIME, Jan. 22 et seq.). It was not yet an accomplished fact; the treaty still teetered in the balance of events. On Sept. 4, some 50 nations (he hoped) would meet in San Francisco to sign it; the U.S. Senate and the other governments would have to confirm it. "The treaty," Dulles has anxiously observed, "is in jeopardy every day of its life...
...President did not duck. He told a press conference stubbornly that it was his job, and not a bar association's, to make judicial appointments. He forgot to add that it is also the Senate's job to confirm those appointments. If the Illinois poll goes against him, that in itself will be a sharp blow. Douglas will oppose the Truman men when they come to the Senate and-if Douglas makes a determined fight of it-the Senate will likely reject them. That will be a real nose-bashing for Mr. Truman...