Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreknowledge. The Senate opposition -what little there was- knew that they had been beaten before they started. They had no apparent strategy for concerted attack. But the Charter's proponents did. That strategy was: accentuate the negative. What the Charter would not do, rather than what it might hopefully accomplish, was their theme. Carefully and objectively, white-suited Chairman Tom Connally and Senator Arthur Vandenberg explained the Charter would not abridge U.S. sovereignty; it would not put war-won Pacific islands under international trusteeship; it would not impose some postwar schemes of disarmament upon the U.S. without U.S. approval...
...which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee's ' G.O.P. adviser on international affairs...
...Crackpot." The hearings set off some fireworks, but even these sputtered and fizzled. They came mostly in one day, from some dozen witnesses who saw international bogeymen lurking under the Charter...
...noisiest: Mrs. Agnes Waters ("National Blue Star Mothers of America"). Her line: the Charter would "set up a world government for the Soviets . . . make of this nation a feeding trough for the have-nots...
...witness who claimed to represent most territory was tall, lean David Darrin: he announced himself as representing "The United Nations of the Earth Association." This, it developed, was no more than a letterhead and David Darrin. He offered a charter of his own: "The Tentative Constitution of the United Nations of the Earth." It was not examined. The World Security Charter he dismissed as "godless . . . a monstrous crime against American liberties...