Word: council
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success angry members of the U.N. Trusteeship Council, which was supposed to establish the international regime over Jerusalem, called for a strong stand against Israel's truculence. Ben-Gurion's government meanwhile was carrying on independent negotiations with Jordan's cunning King Abdullah, whose Arab Legionnaires patrolled Jerusalem's Old City, a stone's throw from the blue & white flag flying over Ben-Gurion's headquarters in the Eden Hotel...
...Soekarno and his inexperienced government should prove unable to fill the vacuum which the end of the white man's rule had left behind in Indonesia, the Communists stood ready to rush in. In U.N.'s Security Council, they provided a clue to their attitude toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages...
...Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was nominated by the army's all-powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline,† to Australian-born George Lyndon Carpenter. But Pugmire...
...such a clause could be used as a restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. There is no question that discrimination is a bad thing; but against this particular method of combating it must be weighed the abridgement of freedom -- an abridgement which would set a precedent for the Council, or for University Hall, further to limit the membership, actions, or purposes of student groups. There are too many such regulations...
...Council would do well to consider not only the ineffectiveness of its latest resolution, but also its implications for freedom of association at Harvard...