Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council took on one of its toughest problems of the term Monday evening--the proposed anti-discrimination clause in the new set of rules for undergraduate organizations. After long wrangling, the Council finally recommended that the Faculty outlaw the charter of any group which includes a membership clause discriminating on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...
Discrimination is not susceptible of a black-and-white solution. For those who practice it, it is logical and--in the mind of the practitioner--perfectly justified. Fighting it effectively is basically a matter of persuasion rather than publicity alone; and it is certainly not a matter for charter reform...
...main point mentioned of those opposed to the ruling, was that merely prohibiting open discrimination provisions in a group's charter will do nothing on a practical level to eliminate discrimination...
...directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...problem of trusteeship was chopped in two parts in the UN Charter. Chapter XI of that document deals with dependent areas already being administered by individual nations, while Chapters XII and XIII provide machinery for the General Assembly to assume or delegate administrative powers over certain regions...