Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime Missouri farm boy had some potent bargaining weapons in his luggage. Congress had already passed the reciprocal-trade bill, and was set to approve Bretton Woods and the San Francisco Charter. Russia has already been offered membership on the Combined Coal Committee, and would be invited at Berlin to join the Combined Production and Resources Board and the Combined Food Board. Moreover, in his pocket, Harry Truman held Marshal Stalin's request for $6 billion in postwar loans...
Many a San Francisco delegate and observer, obsessed during the conference by the Big Power conflicts (see below), was pleasantly surprised when the job was done and the charter could be read as a whole. Some of them (notably Arthur Vandenberg-see U.S. AT WAR) felt like saying, as Ben Franklin did, after the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787: "I confess I do not entirely approve of this constitution at present. ... I consent . . . because I expect no better and because I am not sure it is not the best. . . . It astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching...
...would never be set to music. Nevertheless, the final draft of the Preamble to the United Nations charter went a long way toward that universal appeal of language which many of the delegates, including Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve...
...committee lawyers achieved one fine clause: ". . . to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors." But their ending would disgrace the corporate charter of a tack factory. They wrote that "We, the peoples" had spoken at San Francisco through "representatives . . . who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form...
...veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...