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Fix this text1. This Agreement is not a Treaty in the strict sense, for it was
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Fix this text2 a The Agreement has been adversely affected in the minds of ma -
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Fix this textConferences held during the present war, notably at Casablanca,
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Fix this textHew Zealand which should be strengthened by everything in our power.
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Fix this text4, Tutting these preliminary reservations on one side, the
Fix this textAgreement seems to me to have certain meritorious elements:«
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Fix this text(a) It establishes formal means for collaboration
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