* 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

In 1954, he received the Karlspreis ( English: Charlemagne Award ), an Award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea, European cooperation and European peace.

Laos gained full independence following the French defeat by the Vietnamese communists and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.

In 1954 Japanese peace movements converged to form a unified " Japanese Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs ".

* April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.

Although Nasser made secret contacts with Israel in 1954 – 55, he concluded that peace with Israel would be impossible, considering it an " expansionist state that viewed the Arabs with disdain.

The French suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and peace was sought.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

One of the main points in Rosato's argument is that, although never engaged in open war with another liberal democracy during the Cold War, the United States intervened openly or covertly in the political affairs of democratic states several times, for example in the Chilean coup of 1973, the 1953 coup in Iran and 1954 coup in Guatemala ; in Rosato's view, these interventions show the United States ' determination to maintain an " imperial peace ".

The white color represents peace ; the green, the beauty of nature ; the red, the blood of those killed fighting for independence in the Algerian War ( 1954 to 1962 ) and the star and crescent represent Islam.

He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959.

As Chief of Staff in 1954, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) was designed to maintain the General Armistice Agreements until permanent peace could be formulated.

A PCF deputy declared: " Going to Berlin, is making oneself complice of the torturers ...." Nevertheless, on 9 July, when the whole of the French right-wing voted " for " the participation of France to the OG of Berlin, the left-wing ( PCF included ) abstained itself – from the notable exception of the particular Pierre Mendès France, who would become Prime minister under the Fourth Republic and negotiate the peace agreements with the Viet-minh in Indochina in 1954.

The Geneva Conference ( April 26 – July 20, 1954 ) was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to unify Vietnam and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.

Barco returned to Colombia in 1954 to help negotiate the peace process which allowed the formation of the National Front between liberals and conservatives, which lasted two decades.

* ( born 1954 ), German theologian and peace activist

The panels also depict the accident of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru on the Bikini Atoll in 1954 which the Marukis believed showed the threat of a nuclear bomb even during peace time.

After Enrico died of stomach cancer in 1954, Laura became a writer and a peace activist.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

One of the key factors for these feelings was footballer Tinus Bosselaar, who moved from Sparta to Feyenoord in 1954 before Sparta re-signed him, despite Feyenoord trying to prevent the deal in court.

Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

The deal was a straight stock transfer ( three shares of Hudson listed at 11⅛, for two shares of AMC and one share of Nash-Kelvinator listed at 17⅜, for one share of AMC ) and finalized in the spring of 1954, forming the fourth-biggest auto company in the U. S. with assets of US $ 355 million ( US $ in dollars ) and more than $ 100 million in working capital.

The Driver is employed by James Brown, who goes to meet the Devil to re-negotiate the deal he made as a young man in 1954 to trade his soul for fame and fortune.

In 1954 he signed a two-picture deal with Columbia Pictures giving him script and co-star approval.

This deal came about after the success of the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale as an episode of the CBS television series Climax !.

His novel Mine Boy ( 1946 ), one of the first works to bring him to critical attention, and his memoir Tell Freedom ( 1954 ) deal in part with apartheid.

The fortress went unused and slowly crumbled until 1954, when it was designated a national park and a good deal of repair work was done.

Instead, he was placed in charge of the newly-formed Travel and Exploration Unit, striking a deal which would allow him to continue to film his popular Zoo Quest ( 1954 – 1963 ) series alongside natural history output from the fledgling Bristol unit.

He is credited with keeping the brilliant, but tormented and difficult Garland working and with setting up a deal with Warner Brothers to bankroll his wife's comeback film, a 1954 musical remake of A Star Is Born plus future projects.

This facility therefore produced all 1954 " Gear-Start ", 1955 " Twin-Ultramatic ", and 1956 Ultramatic derivatives thru the fall of 1956 when this facility was deactivated and sold as part of a corporate buyout deal with the Curtiss-Wright Company.

The England national team won its first title in 1966 wearing kits by Umbro ( the deal had been signed in 1954 ).

As a minor league prospect, he was traded to the Cardinals in a multi-player deal before the 1954 season for veteran outfielder Enos Slaughter, now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On November 17, 1954, a record seventeen-player deal took place between the Orioles and Yankees, involving Woodling.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

The great eleven volume Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum compiled between 1870 and 1954 is the definitive reference work for the study of British Satirical prints.

The names included belong to those who died between 1954 and 1968.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

* 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D. C ..

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

* Relations between the two countries date to 1954 when Ethiopia established an Honorary Consulate General in that country.

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ) produced US $ 60 million worth of gold and silver between 1882 and 1954 before discontinuing most of its operations.

* 1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.

In 1954 Nehru signed with China the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, known in India as the Panchsheel ( from the Sanskrit words, panch: five, sheel: virtues ), a set of principles to govern relations between the two states.

Their first formal codification in treaty form was in an agreement between China and India in 1954.

They were enunciated in the preamble to the " Agreement ( with exchange of notes ) on trade and intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India ", which was signed at Peking on 29 April 1954.

Negotiations took place in Delhi from December 1953 to April 1954 between the Delegation of the PRC Government and the Delegation of the Indian Government on the relations between the two countries with respect to the disputed territories of Aksai Chin and South Tibet.

He made thirteen Jungle Jim films between 1948 and 1954.

* Warm relations between the two countries date to 1954 when Ethiopia established an Honorary Consulate General in Kenya.

After the war, between 1945 – 1954, the total annual catch increased and reached a maximum of 4, 900 tonnes.

** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

In 1954, General Alfredo Stroessner took advantage of the strong link between the armed forces and the Colorado Party to overthrow the government ; he ruled until 1989.

Valéry served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

The NWA however, ceased to acknowledge Burke as their Women's World champion in 1954, and instead acknowledged June Byers as champion after a controversial finish to a high-profile match between Burke and Byers that year.