Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dispute. Under the U.N. charter, Security Council membership is supposed to be parceled out on a basis of "equitable geographic distribution." Under a "gentlemen's agreement" among U.N. countries, that means that one of the six small-power seats goes to the Communist bloc. The agreement was bent a bit two years ago when Yugoslavia, still Communist but no longer Moscow's Little Sir Echo, got the seat...
High Standard. At Yale, Eli Whitney won a key, and Chemist Benjamin Silliman bitterly complained about PBK's bibulous anniversary meetings ("After such surfeits, I am always sick"). In 1818, South Carolina College at Columbia applied for a charter, sent it to the Secretary of War, PBK's John C. Calhoun, who in turn sent it to the Secretary of State, PBK's John Quincy Adams. Adams was the first presidential member. Those who came after him: Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt* and William Howard Taft...
...Progressive Club has since received recognition at the next meeting of the Committee, so the speech was rescheduled for Thursday. The Club grew out of the Students for Wallace organization in 1948, but last year it lost its charter, which necessitated a recharter this fall. It states that its ideology is that "within the history and traditions of the American people lies the potential for peace and democracy...
...explain his vote (in 1949) against the North Atlantic Treaty. "In spite of the fact that I approved the warning given to Russia by the ratification of the Atlantic pact, I voted against it because I felt it was contrary to the whole theory of the United Nations Charter, which had not then been shown to be ineffective...
...Leadership. The United Nations has "largely failed," Taft says, because its charter pays too much attention to "peace and security" and not enough to "law and justice." This is a point of the utmost importance, and one frequently ignored in discussions of international relations. Yet after making the analytical point in criticism of the U.N. charter, Taft curiously fails to develop the positive side of the essential relationship between law and justice. He seems blind to the responsibilities and opportunities of U.S. leadership. In a detached, passive and utterly unrealistic passage, he says: "It seems to me that peace...