Word: charter
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...direction in foreign policy. By last week the State Department had set up a six-man staff that was hard at work translating Dulles' challenging words into some specific proposals. The U.S. aim is to gather the 15 NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar to the Western Hemisphere's Organization of American States, equipped to deal with such common political problems as Cyprus and the Saar. The net effect will be to advance President Eisenhower's long-term concept of European unity. First step will be the drafting...
...Minister to Washington at 28; he was three times China's Foreign Minister, once its Prime Minister, once its Finance Minister. He is one of two living diplomats* who drafted the League of Nations Covenant in 1919; nearly a quarter century later he helped draft the U.N. Charter...
...major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation of a government corporation, now called the Economic Development Authority, with a charter to industrialize the island...
Last week in Washington, a twelve-nation conference at last got around to approving a charter for the agency that will run the atoms-for-peace program. The Russians dropped their 1½-year-old insistence that it come under the U.N. Security Council, where they hold a veto. The Indians stopped haggling about the rights of have-not nations when the U.S. and Russia agreed that the agency should submit reports to the 76-nation U.N. General Assembly. The twelve countries agreed that the agency should receive, regulate and distribute fissionable materials, as the President had proposed back...
Thirteen passengers must be found before tomorrow's deadline if the so-called "Europe Cooperative" project to charter a plane for a round-trip flight to the Continent is to succeed, announced Victor R. Besso '57, co-chairman of the enterprise...