Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia excepted, meet at Geneva to initiate a revival of world trade as a basis for lasting peace and prosperity, the frank, business-like atmosphere suggests that many of the very basic cleavages in attitudes may be reconciled. While the conferences deal with both a long-range issue (a charter for the proposed International Trade Organization) and a more immediate problem (the writing of new multi-lateral trade agreements), the same conflicting philosophics hamper both tasks. Fortunately America, upon whom the success of the sessions and the ultimate fortunes of the ITO and world trade rests, seems, at last...
...return, the U.S. wanted a general relaxation of all the trade restrictions thought up by nervous economic planners to make their economics more "secure." And the U.S. wanted the new rules for "freer" world trade written into the Charter of an International Trade Organization (I.T.O.), to act as umpire hereafter...
...first case directed to the court by the Council since the contemporary Hague Tribunal was organized under the U. N. Charter...
...improvised prospect for peace between The U.S. and Russia also increases the United Nations' chance for survival and growth. All realists at the San Francisco Conference understood this. The Russians stated it most clearly, but the U.S. delegation that helped draft the U.N. Charter was also keenly and unanimously aware that they were placing the fate of U.N. upon the security of the U.S., and not vice versa...
Last week U.S. Delegate Warren Austin at U.N. put this fact (which is implicit in the U.N. Charter) into polite language for some Americans (and all Communists) who are screaming that the Truman Doctrine bypasses U.N. Said Austin: "It is by combining national and international action . . . that the members of the United Nations can advance the cause of collective security." Quoting President Truman, he added: "In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom, the U.S. will be giving effect to ... the Charter...