Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has received Leningrad University's long-delayed reply to a letter written by President Pusey last June. The arrival of this letter, dated June 2, coupled with Saturday's extension of the Lacey-Zaroubin cultural exchange agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, raises hopes in University Hall that some definite exchange steps may be worked out in the near future...
...Anderson that the "new situation' called for a "fresh examination" of international economic policies. The IMF executive board urged member nations with adequate gold and dollar reserves to end discrimination against U.S. goods "with all feasible speed." A few days later, the meeting of the 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Tokyo echoed the same theme. Fortnight ago. Britain, France and Japan all set about complying with the spirit of the IMF and GATT meetings. Britain wiped out quotas on most U.S. goods. France pared some tariffs on U.S. imports, scrapped a batch of import quotas...
Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
...include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven, bringing Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal into a loose tariff agreement. But the British, who privately admit that the Outer Seven is a patchwork job, now describe it as "a pier from which we can build a bridge with the Common Market." It promises to be no more than that...
...estate and adviser to his widow. Wallace had advised Mrs. Young to support any future Sonnabend bid for control. When Kirby got wind of this piece of advice, the executive committee fired Wallace. Snapped Sonnabend ominously: "An act of bad faith. A violation of a gentleman's agreement to keep Wallace. I decline to serve on the board as presently constituted...