Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holds that its pledge to uphold the U.N. Charter is sufficient guarantee that the West will not commit aggression to liberate the satellites...
...millionaire?"), manage to pull such a prestige-building and moneysaving deal out of the U.S. Air Force? Last spring Moral Re-Armament tried to wheedle 200 free trips from the U.S. to the Far East out of Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens, who referred them to commercial charter concerns. Last June some 20 Congressmen descended upon Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, proclaiming that to carry Moral Re-Armament representatives around Asia, after they got there by commercial routes, was a worthy assignment for the Air Force. Wilson and Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott finally "approved the project...
...Premier Chou En-lai cabled a message of support. To most of the 4,000 Africans who listened to the vivid harangues, much of the Marxist language probably made little sense when translated into Zulu or Sotho. But to the small group of Negro intellectuals, a "Freedom Charter," introduced at the meeting, did have an appeal. With the literates among them leading, Africans, Indians and colored folk alike cheered charter phrases such as "ownership of the people" with the cry: "Mayibuye, Afrika" (Africa, come back). The only thing they seemed sure of was that the charter was antigovernment...
...minds, they cannot afford to be. Soviet troops pulled out of Iran in 1946 soon after the Security Council cocked an eye at their presence. Russian delegates pay the U.N. the compliment of hypocrisy, invariably attempting to justify their conduct on the basis of the U.N. charter; Red China seeks desperately to join the U.N. club...
More important, the S.G. has the right to draft resolutions and take part in all U.N. debates. His duty, laid down in the charter, is to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten . . . international peace." In practice, this means that the S.G. may inject himself into any international dispute he thinks he can help to settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world...