Word: charterers
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...complied with this resolution." In presenting the resolution to the Council, Lodge spoke with bluntness rare towards allies. The U.S., he said, does not believe that "in any circumstances this [Anglo-French] ultimatum would be justifiable or ... consistent with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev eagerly announced that "the Soviet delegation is prepared to vote in favor of the U.S. draft resolution . . ." When the vote came, Britain and France, the two historic allies of the U.S.. vetoed the U.S. proposal...
...harm to the prestige and reputation of our country. This action involved not only the abandonment but a positive assault upon the three principles which have governed British foreign policy for at least the last ten years-solidarity with the Commonwealth, the Anglo-American alliance, and adherence to the Charter of the United Nations...
White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down...
Three of the Princeton eating clubs: Charter, Key and Seal, and Quadrangle, will be open to Harvard students on Saturday night. The bands of Ben Cutler, "Wild Bill" Davidson, and Ben Napier will furnish the music...
...laws, the state of Texas last week put the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business within its borders.* In a civil proceeding in the Seventh District Court at Tyler, the N.A.A.C.P. was charged with 1) barratry (inciting or instigating lawsuits), 2) violating its state charter as a charitable and benevolent group by engaging in political activity, 3) failing to pay state franchise taxes. The court's injunction so sharply curbs the activities of N.A.A.C.P.'s 20,000 Texas members that N.A.A.C.P. Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall, while planning his appeal, ruefully admitted...