Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flood's guests had a fifty-fifty week. On the main business of the conference-the drafting of a charter for a world organization-the Big Three statesmen and their Big Four partner, China's T. V. Soong, made astonishing progress. On the symbolic, overshadowing issue of Poland, the Big Three had to admit an appalling failure...
...contrast was instructive. When the Big Powers concerned themselves solely with the structure and interplay of world power, agreement was always possible. When they concerned themselves with the morals of power, agreement seemed easy in the preliminary stage of words (i.e., the Crimea declaration on Poland; some of the charter amendments approved last week). But when they got down to cases on such issues, the deep differences between the Soviet Union and its principal allies came nakedly to the fore, and agreement was difficult if not impossible...
...were slow to sink in. It was as though Stettinius and Eden did not want to look at the skeleton which had invaded the feast. All next day they and Molotov labored away, in a kind of desperate friendliness, at changes in the Dumbarton Oaks draft of their world charter, but the skeleton would not be banished...
...Francisco conference has only one job-to draft a charter for a postwar organization of "peace-loving states." Unlike Versailles after World War I, it is not a peace conference; that will come later. Such matters as Poland may come up at San Francisco, but they are not the primary business of the conference...
...primary business is to consider and complete the outline of a world charter drawn up last fall by representatives of the U.S., the Soviet Union and Great Britain at Dumbarton Oaks, a private estate in Washington. China also signed the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, but they are the Big Three's work. Originally incomplete, even as an outline, Dumbarton Oaks now includes additions agreed on at Yalta by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, and others (filling out the sketchy world court section) prepared in Washington by a committee of jurists...