Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council has been reluctant to use force in Palestine. The United Nations charter does not allow the use of force in upholding political decisions--in this case, partition--but it does specifically entitle the Security Council to enlist armed troops for maintaining international peace. A police force would presumably draw upon manpower from several nations; up to now, no one in the Council has been able to agree which ones. The Western Powers are wary of letting Russian troops into the Near East; but they are unwilling to employ their own forces and risk straining economic relations with the Arab...
...Council ended yesterday's session by granting the U.N. Council of Radcliffe a one-year charter...
...Charter members include Professor Harry T. Levin, Howard M. Le Sourd, Dean of the School of Public Relations at Boston University, and Clarence Derwent, president of Actor Equity...
Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...purpose of a law court is to admit evidence and fix the guilt of the past. The ostensible purpose of an international conference is to reach constructive agreement upon future settlements. Recognizing this functional distinction, the U. N. charter-makers at San Francisco separated the International Court of Justice from the Security Council and the General Assembly. The most discouraging and barren aspect of the current Paris U. N. meetings is that the delegates of East and West have sat as a grand jury rather than as diplomatic plenipotentiaries...