Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end King Abdullah and President Inonii had signed a formal pact of friendship...
Recessional. Two weeks later Byrnes made his great Stuttgart speech in which he recognized, as the Potsdam Pact had not, that a healthy Germany was necessary for a reconstructed Europe. To insure that a strong Germany would not again dominate the Continent, Byrnes made a solemn promise...
Last January he rose in convention and nominated Miguel Aleman for the presidency. Convinced that Mexico would have to grow ripe industrially before its revolution could be realized, Lombardo also promoted an industry-labor pact barring strikes so that production could be increased...
...pact now before the Dutch States-General was drafted last month at Linggadjati. There, with Lord Killearn in the chair, Schermerhorn, van Mook and Soekarno (Sjahrir had one of his frequent colds) haggled out an agreement. The issue finally boiled down to a sentence in Article 2 which referred to Indonesia as a "free democratic state." Soekarno's Economics Minister, 38-year-old A. K. Gani (who once acted in a Batavian-made movie True Love), objected: "That word 'free' is not enough. It should be 'sovereign.' " Van Mook turned to Soekarno: "Will you accept...
...Jungle. Today, while the Indies wait upon The Netherlands' reaction to the pact, a truce-but no peace-prevails in Indonesia. The Indonesian Army, led by hotheaded young General Soedirman, continues to snipe at units of the 92,000 Dutch troops under Lieut. General S. H. Spoor. Actually, in Java the Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas...