Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cole claimed that the Conservative Club had the ten members necessary to hold a charter from the University. He said he would submit the same charter that Dean Watson approved last spring again this year...
...instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...
Even in the mellow glow of 1945, the delegates who met at San Francisco to sign the Charter had the foresight to know it was by no means perfect. As a safeguard, they wrote in a provision to allow for a review conference after ten years, if a simple majority in the General Assembly votes to have one. The review is scheduled for next yea. Saturday's UN Day, therefore, marks the end of this first trial period...
...nine and one half years between the San Francisco signing land this Saturday, tremendous interpretive changes have been made without altering the structure of the present Charter. The General Assembly's "uniting for peace" resolution in 1950, for example, made it impossible for a Security Council veto permanently to block recommendations for collective action. Through resolutions such as this, originating in the Assembly, many of the most critical faults in the veto system can at least be partially overcome. But since the veto will still be the major topic in a charter review conference, it may be asked whether revision...
...world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost passed the Bricker Amendment would never conceivably ratify an agreement by which U.S. troops could be committed without this country's consent...