Word: agreements
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...terms of affiliation comprise a mutual agreement between the two institutions to avoid all rivalry, competition, and needless duplication of courses, and to combine the resources of instruction in an economical, harmonious and comprehensive scheme of theological education. It is intended to maintain the organization of the Seminary without change and the Faculty will be appointed as hitherto by the Trustees. The officers and students of both Universities will have the use and enjoyment on equal terms of libraries, museums, and similar privileges, maintained or offered by either institution...
...France-Japanese agreement was simply a safeguard for French Indo-China, but owing to the bad French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...
...Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 is the most important understanding of its kind today. It gives England the ascendency in Afghanistan and equal rights in Persia and Thibet, but it frees Russia from all frontier troubles. France is the chief gainer by it, as the quarrels between England and Russia, which Germany has in the past turned to such good account against the French interest, are now obviated, and the affairs of France on three continents are thereby greatly improved and simplified...
...representative; it had a radical effect on the positions of Italy and Spain. The relations between France and England may be termed dynamic rather than static, and they are to a great extent dependent on the policy pursued by France in Morocco. It should be understood, however, that the agreement is a first-class diplomatic instrument rather than an alliance...
...alliance is a natural one, as the three nations have always been friendly, and the resemblance of their languages makes an entente to be expected. The agreement was negotiated mainly through the efforts of M. Delcasse for France, and Leon y Castillo, Spain's ambassador at Paris. Their success was doubtful up to the last day, but the alliance was finally consummated and the treaty signed...