Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem, which last week was returned to the Security Council after U Thant's failure to provide a solution through backstage jockeying. The Greek Cypriots, led by their President, Archbishop Makarios, stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain under the Charter from tampering by force with the territorial integrity and independence of other members-a device by which Makarios hopes to bar Turkey from interfering with his own island war against the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...were reached. On the legalistic point, Sir Patrick conceded that the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee did indeed give its signers (Britain, Turkey and Greece) the right of intervention in Cyprus, but only for a specifically limited purpose, and that this could not be interpreted as a violation of the Charter. He reminded the Makarios government that it had a "duty" of its own: "To maintain security within its own country and to observe the constitution under which it was created...
Nervous People. The nonpermanent members of the Council busied them selves all week trying to get a proposal on paper that might satisfy everyone. In the preamble, where the difficult legal issue is focused, they came up with some vague verbiage that merely reminds all member states that the Charter obliges them to respect the territorial integrity and independence of other members. Even this was too much for the Turks, who want no weakening of their rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. So the delegates went back to work on another compromise version for consideration by the Council...
...Stassen who in 1943 presented a proposal for a U.N., and who in 1945 was one of the three Republicans appointed by President Roosevelt to work in drafting the U.N. charter at San Francisco. In 1947, two weeks before Marshall broached his plan, Stassen presented in detail an extensive program of economic aid for Europe...
...they were entertaining, which was all right with Judge Smith too. When Ohio's Republican Congressman William M. McCulloch testified in behalf of the bill, Smith tried to tease him into admitting that the public-accommodations provisions were not within the province of the Federal Government's charter. McCulloch was ready for him and launched into a quotation from James Russell Lowell's poem The Present Crisis...