Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victims even of historical murder scream. The London Poles reacted violently. Said an official communiqué: "Violation . . . of the Atlantic Charter and the right of every nation to defend its own interests. . . . The fifth partition of Poland now accomplished by her Allies." Cried septuagenarian Premier Tomasz Arciszewski: "The Polish nation does not believe in the promises of Russia to guarantee a free, democratic Poland...
While Franklin Roosevelt was still on tour, a carefully planned campaign was set rolling on the home front to: 1) publicize the Crimea Charter and the President's hand in it; 2) win the friendship of Congress...
...Yalta communiqué was issued, amiable Presidential Assistant James M. Barnes, onetime Congressman, rushed to the Capitol with the document, gave both Democratic and Republican Senators a look at it before its public release. This special treatment had its effect: a chorus of immediate cheers for the charter echoed through the Senate and House chambers...
Next day, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly reappeared in Washington, having made the 6,700-mile trip from Yalta in 38 hours. Without wasting a minute, he called a press conference. It appeared that Jimmy Byrnes's role was to be the official interpreter of the Crimea Charter to the U.S. people and the Congress...
Dumbarton Oaks. "... A conference of United Nations should be called at San Francisco . . . April 25, 1945, to prepare the charter of [a world security] organization." The Big Three said that they had settled the tough problem raised by Russia's previous insistence that any major power should be able to veto any action against itself, withheld the details of agreement until France and China have been consulted. The date chosen for the San Francisco conference may be significant: April 24, the day before the conference opens, is the last on which Russia may legally end its neutrality pact with...