Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building up the curative aspects of the charter, the United Nations in time might be able to alter a world environment which, unaltered, would not permit any world organization to function effectively. Said one of the U.S. delegation's hopeful consultants...
None of the changes at San Francisco materially alter Big Power control of the all-powerful Security Council, or make the new organization any less impotent to deal with disagreements among the Big Powers. At base, the charter is still a Big Power alliance. But there is this vital and heartening difference: the lesser powers now are parties to the alliance, and in minor respects may even press their views upon the controlling partners. And they have at hand machinery to build up their role and importance in the new United Nations...
China will need the aid of U.S. money, resources, and engineering skill to complete its Yangtze project. But U.S. aid would not be pure altruism. Such a huge source of power would gradually alter much of China's backward economy, giving her a new capacity to repay the cost, and at the same time making her industries and people customers for U.S. electrical equipment...
...back, first in one sector and then in another, business activity and unemployment may fluctuate violently and in different directions, from industry to industry and place to place. Some areas, some industries and some plants will work full blast while others face crises, and swift changes will continually alter the picture...
...Japan is the glee with which the most in human proposals are brought forward and the evident pleasure with which they are received by our fellow citizens. . . . The peace of the world depends upon the restoration of the German and the Japanese people. The wildest atrocity stories can not alter the simple truths that all men are human, that no men are beasts. . . . Let us remember that vengeance is the Lord...