Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris will present some of the reasons for the new charter and argue some of the objections that have been raised against...
...treaty will go into effect, for 20 years, when a majority of the signers have ratified. The framers of the pact labeled it a defensive alliance, permitted by Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. Western Europe had been eager to learn the extent of U.S. military commitment, in case one or more of the pact nations should be attacked by "an aggressor." The commitment (Article Five) provides that if one or more of the treaty nations should be attacked by an aggressor, each of the others will, individually or collectively, take whatever measures it deems necessary against the aggressor "including...
...others, a recommendation came forth. It bore none of the ringing affirmations that distinguished the conference's meetings of 1942, when it called for a postwar world organization, or of 1945, when it called for the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights in the U.N. charter. The delegates sidestepped the issue, called upon the Senate to postpone final action on it until the nation has had an opportunity for full discussion of all its provisions and implications...
...March 14). A delegation of strikers' wives had visited the cardinal without result, and charges of "Communist domination" and "union busting" had flown back & forth. Then the striking cemetery workers, having cut loose from the Red-edged Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America, C.I.O., got a new charter as Local 365 of the Building Service Employees, A.F.L. The day the charter came through, the cardinal sat and talked things over with Vice President David Sullivan of the Building Service international...
...inter national affairs to be sponsored by the Federal Council. The first, in 1942 at Delaware, Ohio, produced the famed "Six Pillars of Peace," which stressed the need for a postwar world organization. The second, at Cleveland in 1945, prophesied against the moral nihilism of the Dumbarton Oaks Charter and effectively demanded that the United Nations Charter should pay its respects to the Christian concepts of justice, law and human rights. * This week's meeting was opened with a speech by John Foster Dulles, delegate to U.N., who, for eight years as Chairman of the Commission on A Just...