Word: charter
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...rnberg, or the seeming lack of it, worried many a worrier. Nobody had formulated the doubts very well. But they existed: Justice Jackson's whole statement to the Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more...
UNESCO, Sigma XI hopes, will be a coordinating, rather than an operating group, planned to simplify the fraternity of specialists in diverse fields and to act as a body for the study of educational and allied problems on behalf of international cooperation. The UNESCO charter, as yet unaccepted by Congress, is promulgated to allow science and education to keep pace with the general trend toward international unity...
...Politician Bevin did not put all his eggs in one Utopian basket. He well knows that it is the governments of three nations, not the peoples of the world, that hold 90% of the world's military power; that the present charter of the United Nations was drafted in painful consciousness of that hard fact...
...Security Council might decide they were needed; 4) neither the President nor his delegate would have the power to use more troops than the numbers specified in the military agreements under the United Nations Charter...
...cried, that Congress was relinquishing its war-making powers to two men-the President and his UNO delegate. Nor did it mean that the President would now be scot-free to get the U.S. into a series of meddling and unconstitutional wars to back up the nation's Charter pledges. U.S. Presidents have always had the power to send their troops into battle-they have done so many times without committing the nation to war. But Congress has always reserved, and still reserves, the right to follow the shock troops with armies...