Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intermediary, than Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that his government is trying once again to reconvene the Geneva conference that split North and South Viet Nam into separate entities eleven years ago. "The American Government is prepared to have discussions on the basis of the 1954 settlement at Geneva," said Wilson. "But is Hanoi...
...bargaining lever for establishment of an all-German government and the convening of a peace conference. But the Poles-who have moved 8,500,000 migrants of their own into the lost territories-are equally adamant that formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse boundary must precede any settlement of the German question...
...well be that no long-term agreement for U.S. wheat will be forthcoming until India complies with the United Nations order to pull back its troops from the truce line along the Pakistan border and show some sign of interest in a settlement of the Kashmir question...
...over, the Bourbon monarchy did everything diplomatically possible to reduce, partition and even scuttle the brash young nation that had dared dispute the rule of royalty. And during the peace negotiations, France cynically tried to sell the U.S. down the river for the sake of an overall settlement with Britain and Spain...
...broke instructions." He informed Lord Shelburne that he was prepared to hold separate talks with England, but only if England would acknowledge that it was dealing, not with rebellious colonies, but with the United States of America. Well aware that America was the lever that could swing the general settlement, Shelburne was delighted to lift the lever out of Vergennes' hands. He agreed to recognize the U.S., and on Oct. 29, 1782, negotiations began on a semisecret basis -that is to say, the U.S. commissioners truthfully told Vergennes that they were talking with the English, but untruthfully told...