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...would drastically amend or replace the U.N.O. Charter by a constitution setting up a world state with "limited but definite" powers. The chief powers: control of the atomic bomb and all other heavy weapons; the right to inspect industrial and other installations in all member countries to insure that no nation was preparing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Perilous Fission | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...Party. Charlie Milton's wife left home. She was gone for months. But she finally came back, and one night last week she and Imogene went out together. Charlie met them at Amend's Tavern and they all went back to Imogene's, where they had a heated argument. Focus of the argument: Charlie. Wrathfully Betty Milton jabbed an ice pick through Imogene's screen door. Imogene, just as wrathful, rushed out and hurled a beer glass through one of the Miltons' windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Future & Ben Franklin. The charter provides for future change. At the end of ten years simple majorities of the Assembly and of the Security Council may call another conference to review and amend. But all of the Big Powers must accept the amendments. If the Big Powers are still as big and still in the same state of mind, amendment will be as difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: From Where to Where? | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Provided for a future constitutional convention to review and amend the charter within ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Something Is Born | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Period!'; or when any one is ready to fight will say 'You must not fight. Period!' " That was enough to defeat the amend ment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Of Mice & Lions | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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