Peace Treaties Quotes
This was part of the negotiation of a peace treaty with the Barbary States. The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Military action on land and sea by American marines and naval ships had caused much damage and intimidated the Barbary States somewhat. See {640870}
Vladimir Lenin
This included the non-Muslim Arabs and the Jews.
Carter, together with the American and Israeli negotiating staffs came up with a creative idea whereby the Israeli Knesset voted to dismantle the settlements so that Begin would not renege on his promise. The breakthrough enabled the Camp David Accord and the Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. Carter later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the history of diplomacy and peace treaty negotiations, the various national representative would meet in secret, negotiate treaties and add secret clauses. Then the treaty was finally made public for approbal or ratification in the different countries no one would be told of the secret clauses. Each side would have a written secret copy of these clauses, but the publics of the country would never know. For example, the agreements about various WWII issues that were secret have not yet been made public in the United States or England. Wilson wanted to put an end to that diplomatic ploy and wanted all the peace treaty clauses to be public with nothing secret. He also wanted the deliberations to made in public woth press access. He had little support for the idea in most European nations.
