Word: cession
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...trust that the cession will be peaceful," the students said, "but we are prepared to fight for our lawful domain, in the name of justice and peace, if your aggression persists...
...Communist-run government of postwar Poland behaved as if the cession of the disputed territory (including coal, iron and grain-rich Silesia) were final then & there. It brutally proceeded to expel more than 5,000,000 Germans from their old homes. (These bitter refugees now crowd Western Germany...
...Germany; Communists in Poland have insisted that the territory would stay with the Poles. Moscow itself kept mum-until last week. To Warsaw journeyed East Germany's Red boss, Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht, to return with a treaty in which the East German government formally ratified the cession of the German territory to Poland...
More important, he said, "Improvement of economic relations and other types of cooperation [which] can . . . contribute to the easier solution of disputed problems." Next day, in his first press conference since his break with the Cominform, Tito amicably hinted that he was ready for the cession of Trieste to Italy if Italy would give up the border town of Gorizia to Yugoslavia...
...George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later became the island's Resident Commissioner in Washington. Today he is venerated for having won U.S. citizenship for his countrymen...