Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State George C. Marshall told the four-power council of Foreign Ministers that no German government should be saddled with the onus of signing the treaty, but that the German people should agree in their national constitution to accept the terms of the pact...
...other side of the world, the U.S. battened down its postwar military bases in the Philippines. There never had been any disagreement over the principle-only over details. Now these were ironed out, and the pact was signed last week. The backdrop was festive: a farewell ball in Malacañan Palace for Ambassador Paul V. McNutt, who will soon resign...
...extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers...
...Soviet Government itself admitted the arrests, if not the number of them, in a pact signed with the Polish Government in Exile in London in June 1941. The Soviets promised amnesty to "all Polish citizens at present deprived of their liberty" in the U.S.S.R. so that a Polish army could be raised and trained on Soviet soil. There were thousands so freed, and thousands who were...
Gunning's advice: "Write as you talk. Most bestsellers, and even the King James version of the Bible, are written so sixth-or seventh-graders can read them. Why should a Washington correspondent write 'bilateral concordance' when he means 'two-way pact?' Why should a police reporter say an accident victim suffered 'contusions and abrasions' when he really means 'cuts and bruises...