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Then a sudden switch was made in Senate signals. For Senate action this week, the Bretton Woods monetary plan and international bank was put ahead of the World Charter. Administration leaders hoped it would be approved before the week was out. Then, they hoped, would come quick action on the Charter. Last week it passed its first Senate examination -by the Foreign Relations Committee...
...Bretton Woods, the United Nations' master plan for orderly international trade, was just a year old. Of the 44 drafting nations, not one had either accepted or rejected the proposals. Forty-three waited...
People who had nothing better to worry about last week noted a strong dendrophile tendency in the Big Three. They could not stay away from trees. There had been Bretton Woods (see below) and Dumbarton Oaks. Now they were at Potsdam, a German version of the old Slavonic name, Poztupimi, which means "under the oaks...
This week final U.S. action was in sight. The-House had already passed a Bretton Woods bill; now the Senate had taken it up. Ahead was a test of two great issues: 1) could international cooperation of a very difficult kind be translated from oratory into practice? 2) could world trade be returned to free enterprise...
Although the discussion was obscured by the trade slang of monetary metaphysics, a surprising weight of world opinion had developed behind the proposals. Bretton Woods would probably be functioning by next year...