Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modeled in some ways on the prewar reciprocal trade pacts, the treaty provided for free & equal trade on a most-favored-nation basis. It contained some specific safeguards for American investment, but not at the expense of the Chinese nation or people. Besides furnishing a much-needed business blueprint, the conclusion of the pact was a peacetime implementation of a primary U.S. war thesis: that China is a big power now, and deserves to be treated as such. U.S. business naturally hoped that China would soon begin to behave like a grownup...
Struggling with the terms of the Peace pact for Italy, the Council of Foreign Ministers spent three hours pinned down to the problem of who should have the authority to "call the cops" in the event of trouble in Trieste...
...YORK, November 14--A Russian demand for sharp curtailment of power for the governor of Trieste stymied temporally today positive action by the four-power council of foreign ministers on a final peace pact for Italy...
Byrnes termed the dispute the most important point involved in the question of reaching an agreement on a peace pact for Italy and demanded a decision before the council move on to other issues in contention
Winning an Argument. The shock of the Socialist-Communist pact was aug mented by surprise. Since last spring, when left-wing Socialist Pietro Nenni and Communist leader Palmiro ("Hercules") Togliatti put their heads together in a vain attempt at merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe had been running against the Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini...