Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roots. The charter recognizes that "conditions of stability and well-being are . . . necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations" and takes a measure of responsibility for creating such conditions...
...Obviously the enforcement machinery won't work in the cases where it will be needed most-disputes between the great powers. The Security Council, the joint military staffs, are just so much scenery. The real guts of this charter are in the parts which attempt to set up constructive goals toward which all the powers can strive together. The Security Council is defective because in it power is too concentrated. The General Assembly is defective because El Salvador and Liberia are unrealistically given as many votes as the U.S. and Great Britain. These defects won't be remedied...
...Peoples." Dumbarton Oaks had no preamble at all, scarcely a mention of right or justice. The new charter has a preamble which is loaded with principled phrases (see above). Perhaps cynics who scorned the affirmations of faith in tolerance, freedom, equality, hu man dignity and better standards of life forgot that whole economic and social programs had been based upon an equally vague phrase in the U.S. Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms...
...Future & Ben Franklin. The charter provides for future change. At the end of ten years simple majorities of the Assembly and of the Security Council may call another conference to review and amend. But all of the Big Powers must accept the amendments. If the Big Powers are still as big and still in the same state of mind, amendment will be as difficult...
None of the changes at San Francisco materially alter Big Power control of the all-powerful Security Council, or make the new organization any less impotent to deal with disagreements among the Big Powers. At base, the charter is still a Big Power alliance. But there is this vital and heartening difference: the lesser powers now are parties to the alliance, and in minor respects may even press their views upon the controlling partners. And they have at hand machinery to build up their role and importance in the new United Nations...