Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact with Peru...
Good Neighbor Uruguay last week signed a reciprocal trade pact with...
More important than the trade pact was a $12,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for construction of a sorely needed hydroelectric plant at Rio Negro dam, not far from industrially growing Montevideo...
...with the local success near Voronezh. For reasons best known to Joseph Stalin, Zhukov has never been upped to the rank of Marshal-possibly because he took no trouble to hide his deep hatred for the Germans, his disapproval of the late Moscow-Berlin pact...
Significant of new tension in Soviet-Japanese relations was the fact that Russia had waited since May 1, when the Angarstroi was sunk, to bring into the open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact...