Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Dumbarton Oaks proposals one big power, even if the aggressor, can veto the operation of the security system created in the Act of Chapultepec, the Franco-Russian alliance, or any other such arrangement. In our opinion, the Security Council should have only advisory power in this, regard...
...primary business is to consider and complete the outline of a world charter drawn up last fall by representatives of the U.S., the Soviet Union and Great Britain at Dumbarton Oaks, a private estate in Washington. China also signed the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, but they are the Big Three's work. Originally incomplete, even as an outline, Dumbarton Oaks now includes additions agreed on at Yalta by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, and others (filling out the sketchy world court section) prepared in Washington by a committee of jurists...
...main emphasis of Dumbarton Oaks, including its amendments, is on the structure of a world organization, rather than on its principles. The structure recommended to the San Francisco delegates rests largely on power-the power of the U.S., Russia, Britain. In this structure...
...projected at Dumbarton Oaks, the Assembly is to be an international forum, not a world legislature. Every member of the organization is to be automatically a member of the Assembly, free to "discuss any questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security" and to make recommendations on such matters as disarmament. But if the Assembly wants action taken, it must appeal to the Security Council...
...drafters of Dumbarton Oaks frankly proposed that the Council, rather than the Assembly, should have "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." The Council may (not must) "investigate any dispute, or any situation which may lead to international friction"; but all members promise to seek a solution of disputes through negotiation, mediation, judicial settlement, or ''other peaceful means." The main job of the Council is to press the parties to settle disputes by themselves. Only in the event of failure does the Security Council swing into action...