Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Gleichberechtigung. If the Brussels conference ratified this agreement, the next major job would be to sell it to the Germans. As the Western military position had deteriorated, and the Russian threat grew, Germany's price for risking rearmament had risen. The Bonn government now demanded no less than Gleichberechtigung (equality). Politically, this meant ending the occupation statute, replacing it by a treaty giving Germany sovereignty. Militarily, it meant full German divisions, commanded by Germans...
Tsiang charged that the present dangers in China and Korea might be attributed to the Yalta Agreement, when the Soviet Union was given the right of entry into Manchuria that the Soviet Union trained and equipped troops for the Chinese and Korean armies...
...West should seek a cease-fire in Korea, then try to bargain with Red Leader Mao Tse-tung for a working agreement with Asian Communism...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...
Almost alone among big businessmen, General Motors Corp.'s President Charles E. Wilson has needled the steel industry for not expanding faster (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week Charlie Wilson did more than needle. In an unusual agreement, G.M. offered to lend Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. $28 million at only 3% interest. With the loan (still to be approved by J. & L. stockholders), plus another $200 million from bank loans and new bonds, the steel company will do just what Wilson has been asking. It will increase its capacity by 1,500,000 tons, or 32%, by 1953. In return...