Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five fellowships of approximately $2400 each for one year's study at Oxford and Cambridge will be available for students at the University and at Yale under the Charles and Julia Henry Fund, established "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
...behind schedule), Gavam reported on the oil negotiations to the Majlis (Parliament), whose consent is necessary for any foreign exploitation of Persian oil. He clearly implied that the Russian had held a pistol at his head in 1946. Now the pistol was gone, and Persia was sure of U.S. friendship. An emboldened Majlis voted 102-to-2 to declare the Premier's oil negotiations with Russia null & void. The Majlis went on to resolve that Persia would explore and develop her own oil resources, without any foreign assistance. This is not likely to happen...
...rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania will seek sincere cooperation with the nations respecting the independence, sovereignty and freedom of peoples...
...Canada (TIME, Oct. 13), another Canadian voice sang a different song. The U.S., wrote Journalist Leslie Roberts (in a series of articles to be syndicated next week in Canadian and U.S. newspapers), is an inept, conceited, selfish country, drunk with power. Two years ago, said he, friendship between the two countries was at an alltime high. But "in recent months, this feeling has changed sharply. If it has not become hostile, at least it can be described as edgy...
Molotov made that clear to Hitler in 1940 during the days of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Molotov demanded recognition of Russian interests in Rumania, Bulgaria, the Dardanelles and Finland, besides the Baltic states and part of Poland, as the price of continuing friendship. In fact, Byrnes believes that Molotov's stubborn rooting away at Europe's fences was what sent Hitler into a rage and precipitated the Nazi invasion of Russia...