Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuming that "the United Nations is not a club of like-minded people but an international organization," Soviet Delegate Vasily Kuznetsov charged that by backing Japan the U.S. had violated a 1945 "gentlemen's agreement" reserving one of the six nonpermanent seats in the Security Council for an Eastern European nation...
...when "the Eastern European seat" last fell vacant, the U.S. supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the disputed seat for half of the normal two-year term. Japan's election carried U.S. strategy a step further. By backing an Asian nation, the U.S. had weaned part of the Afro-Asian bloc away from the Soviet candidate, seemed well on its way to nullifying the so-called Eastern European...
Edwin O. Reischauer, Director of the Institute and professor of Far Eastern Languages, revealed yesterday that final arrangements have been made for widespread remodeling of the ground floor and basement of the Geographical Institute and construction of a four-story library wing extending in the direction of the Semitic Museum (see picture above...
Having in his first two terms made peace and joined as partner with his Western neighbors, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last week turned his eyes eastward. The time had come, he told his advisers, to improve West Germany's relations with Eastern Europe, and the object most on his mind was Poland. Just 18 years ago the September invasion of the Polish republic by Nazi panzers set off World...
Well aware that Poland now wants to shuck off Soviet domination, that all of Eastern Europe is in ferment, and that anything any Western nation can do to help break the Soviet grip would help, the old Chancellor set out with realistic caution. He wanted more trade with Poland, hoping that from this mutually advantageous first step diplomatic relations might follow. As a beginning, he would like to send a trade mission to Warsaw headed not by a trader but by a political figure...