Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these, only Okinawa, Truk and Manus are suitable for important naval usage. The Jap base at Truk, perhaps the Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...
Treaties, boundaries, alliances, the charter of the new United Nations, the foreign and domestic policies of states-all are affected by estimates of the relative strengths of the nations. Now, all the estimates had to be recalculated...
Security from Terror? When the United Nations met at San Francisco they drafted a peculiar charter for a peculiar world in which a few powers seemed far stronger than all the others together. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. relied fundamentally on the belief that they could defend themselves. That was the meaning of the one-power veto and many another charter provision...
...days last week the U.S. Senate laboriously wrestled with a job of making history. It was certain that the United Nations Charter would be ratified by a thumping majority, but the air in the green-carpeted chamber was heavy with the importance of the task. Crowds of men and women, many in uniform, came to the galleries, day after day. Some of them expected to hear historic debate. There was none, because the issue had already been settled...
What anger and bitterness remained was spent by Montana's Burton K. Wheeler in a quarrelsome, three-hour speech about the peace. He grudgingly announced his intention to vote for the Charter, but he argued against most of its major premises. The "real fight," he promised, would come when legislation to implement U.S. participation reaches the Senate-perhaps not for more than a year. Then there would be a lot to say about Article 43 (which binds the U.S. and other participants to make armed forces available to fight aggression...