Word: charter
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Chapter II, Article 4 of the United Nations Charter states that "Membership in the United Nations is open to all peace-loving states which accept the obligations of the Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations." The U.N. has branded Red China as an "aggressor." This would seem to be a value judgment on the part of the U.N. that Red China is not a "peace-loving" state. The fact that the Charter would limit membership to "peace-loving states" is a direct repudiation of the principle of universality that...
...temper of the final debate on Guatemala's new constitution was hardly above the barroom level, the charter itself, proclaimed last week by President Carlos Castillo Armas, was a model of good intentions. Major changes: ¶ Churches and religious orders, denied legal status since Guatemala's anticlerical laws of the 1870s, get back full lawful rights, including the right to own property. ¶ The Communist and other totalitarian parties are banned, along with all Communist activity by individuals or groups. ¶ The National University is guaranteed 2% of the national budget. ¶ The exiling of citizens, hitherto...
...Among the other charter members: Director Leo Perils of the C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...
...legal requirements for setting up a foundation are simple. To get a tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Service, a foundation must be incorporated under state laws or federal charter, must be administered by trustees and must have charitable purposes. The purposes can be broad or narrow. The Carnegie Corporation has the broad purpose of promoting "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge." The Esso Education Foundation, set up last year, follows a new business trend of giving aid to schools. But some foundations have such narrow purposes that the trustees have trouble spending the money. A Boston hospital was given...
...Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 when President Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius, but in 1950 Truman called him back to launch Point Four. As chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, he wrote the charter that still serves for U.S. policy in technical assistance...