Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veto in the U.N. Security Council was not exclusively a Russian invention. The U.S. Senate itself would not have ratified the U.N. Charter in 1945 if the veto had been omitted. Last week the U.S. and six other nations (Canada, France, Philippines, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay) submitted to the U.N. General Assembly a plan to bypass the sacred veto. No event in U.N.'s history-not even the decision to defend Korea-had more significance. The new proposal, well received by most of the delegations, meant that even the great powers (Russia excepted) were now willing to submit...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, taking a deceptively soft line, said that he favored "some" of the proposals. His speeches soon showed that he was against essential changes. He argued that the present Charter nowhere gives the Assembly the right to control U.N. police forces. He insisted that U.N. could deal with breaches of the peace only if the great powers were in agreement...
Vishinsky was on fairly solid ground when he said that the proposals violated the letter and spirit of the Charter drawn at San Francisco. But the Charter could not be amended unless the Russians agreed. The non-Communist nations faced the choice between evading the Charter's veto provisions or junking U.N. as a peacekeeping instrument...
Aunleted by the officers of the H.Y.R.C., Radcliffe girls met yesterday afternoon in Moors Hall to form an Annex counterpart of the male Republican Club. Although the organizational meeting did not attract enough girls to make the club legal under the Radcliffe charter which requires 20 members, club officers believe that they will have the required number when they bring their petition before the Council on Thursday...
...School Tie. Though a monopoly, BBC is neither directly owned nor controlled by the government. It is set up as a public corporation under a Royal Charter that is normally renewable every ten years. The Postmaster General, who controls all of Britain's communications, may prevent anything from being broadcast. But he has never exercised his right of censorship...