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AnecdotesSimla Accord

On July 2nd, 1972, Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Accord, committing their warring nations (India...

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AnecdotesHoare-Laval

In 1935, British foreign secretary Sir Samuel Hoare reached an agreement with his French counterpart, Pierre Laval,...

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AnecdotesChrist of the Andes

In March 1904, a large statue of Jesus Christ (see `christ of the andes`) was erected in the Uspallata Pass (high in...

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AnecdotesWhiner

The indignation of the Italians over the denial of their claims to the Adriatic coast at the Paris Peace Conference in...

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AnecdotesPeace For Our Time

On September 30th, 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich proudly waving an agreement...

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AnecdotesTreaty of Versailles

"When the German delegation came to Marshal Foch at the end of the war to ask for armistice terms, the Frenchman picked up...

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AnecdotesDesire for Peace

One day during the Yalta Conference following World War II (in 1945), Winston Churchill proposed a toast to his...

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AnecdotesTricky Negotiation

President John F. Kennedy once congratulated his secretary of labor, Arthur Goldberg, for averting a potentially...

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AnecdotesBertha von Suttner: Geneva Convention

"There is something a little unsettling about the suggestion that war is just another routine human activity, like driving...

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