Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together to block the whole concept of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks. That is why I am talking to you and soliciting your support...
When the United Nations convene in April to revise the original Dumbarton Oaks proposals, these considerations may outweigh the right of veto retained by the Big Powers. Everyone in San Francisco will know that, anyhow, whatever the rules, no nation could be made to declare war on itself...
...newsmen, Jimmy Byrnes disclosed some new facts about Franklin Roosevelt's activities in the Crimea (see INTERNATIONAL). He said the President had: 1) chairmanned the conference; 2) devised the compromise on the Dumbarton Oaks voting formula; 3) written the section on treatment of liberated countries. Later the assistant President went to Capitol Hill, talked over Yalta with Senators and Representatives of both parties. Among his guests at a Senate lunch: Montana's articulate, isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who seemed impressed if not satisfied with what he heard...
...first was economics-their economics, their market when U.S. war purchases end, their standard of living and what the U.S. is going to do about it. The second was political relationships-their political relationships with their Big Neighbor, their relationships with the world organization proposed by Dumbarton Oaks, their place in the regional affairs of the Western Hemisphere...
...Dumbarton Oaks. "... A conference of United Nations should be called at San Francisco . . . April 25, 1945, to prepare the charter of [a world security] organization." The Big Three said that they had settled the tough problem raised by Russia's previous insistence that any major power should be able to veto any action against itself, withheld the details of agreement until France and China have been consulted. The date chosen for the San Francisco conference may be significant: April 24, the day before the conference opens, is the last on which Russia may legally end its neutrality pact with...