Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carriers (among them: All American Airways, Monarch Air Service, U.S. Aircoach) be put out of business, on grounds that they overlap scheduled lines. For the 33 other nonscheduled lines, including most of the biggest names, the examiners want a revised classification as "supplemental carriers," which will allow them unlimited charter service plus three independent passenger flights between any two points each month...
...aggressor, and it might weaken U.N. prestige to make this condemned power the only permanent Asian representative on the Security Council, and thus in a sense the leader of Asian opinion. Senator Hubert Humphrey has recommended that the Security Council seat should be given to India, when the U.N. Charter comes up for revision in late June, as a more realistic appraisal of representative Asian opinion...
Britain had entered the war in defense of a free Poland. The U.S. and Britain in the Atlantic Charter had again emphasized, as a principle of world order, the right of self-determination for such distinct but relatively weak peoples as the Poles. When Stalin's returning armies drove the Germans out of Eastern Poland, he set up at Lublin a "provincial government" of Poland in rivalry to the Polish government, which had fled to London after the Hitler-Stalin invasions. The London Polish government was not a creature of Britain; it derived from the Poland created after World...
...future great-power picture (as Roosevelt and Stalin agreed), Britain and the U.S. were the only ones to which Polish patriots could look for help. Stalin needed to destroy this hope-to show the Poles that the Western powers would in practice throw the principles of the Atlantic Charter overboard. The first step must be to get the U.S. and Britain to abandon the London Polish government...
...State Department spokesman warned Finland that the Aruba's mission "could not fail to evoke the disapproval of the free world." The Finnish government insisted that the Aruba was a privately owned ship under charter to a firm in Hong Kong-the principal Hong Kong company used by the Chinese Reds. Chiang Kai-shek vowed to seize the ship as soon as she came within range of his guns or planes. A detachment of five U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, steamed into the Singapore roadstead on what was in fact a routine visit; whereupon the Red Chinese...