Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sohn said in a letter to the New York Times that the Yalta papers furnished important information on the early background of the U.N., but found it "strange" that the material from the Dumbarton conference, which formed the basic plans for the U.N. charter, had not been made public first. He said, "After the printing of the Yalta papers, there is no longer any valid excuse for withholding the Dumbarton Oaks papers from the public...
...then complained that no plans had been made for publishing the Dumbarton Oaks papers, which, he said, "can throw valuable light on the meaning of many provisions of the United Nations Charter." In this respect he likened them to James Madison's notes of the Federal Convention...
...United Nations organization to keep the peace must be established. In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the "imperialist," to defend, sometimes warmly, sometimes cynically, the rights of small nations before the law. Russian objections to U.S. voting-procedure sections of the draft charter foreshadowed the lawless future course of Communist policy; but all arguments over the charter came back to the familiar door, the necessity of total Big Three cooperation and agreement...
...agree with one word of the trusteeship report . . . Under no circumstances would he ever consent to 40 or 50 nations thrusting interfering fingers into the life's existence of the British Empire." Later Churchill said that the principles which had been incorporated in the Atlantic Charter were already in force throughout the British Empire. "I sent a copy of this interpretation to Wendell Willkie," he added...
...what the Yalta conferees, each for his own reason, did not want to face: the gulf that separated Communist Russia from the democracies. Serious consideration of postwar Germany could be postponed. The Far East could be settled by thrusting concessions upon Stalin. The deeply symbolic differences in the U.N. Charter could be bridged by words never destined to bear the stress of reality. But Poland was immediate and concrete, already the subject of angry public debate. How the fate of Poland was settled at Yalta is a story that contains, in a small-scale model, all the elements...