Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant Churches (see below). Not only did their spokesmen in Cleveland swallow Dumbarton Oaks with all its flaws, but in their appended criticisms they never once questioned the all-out use of force in maintaining the peace...
...Protestant churchmen at Cleveland (see col. 3) made a tremendous concession when they waived their moral and practical doubts of Dumbarton Oaks...
...Since the Dumbarton Oaks plan was announced . . . Europe . . . has reverted to power politics. . . . Postwar Europe, as recent developments reveal, is to be based on naked power politics, operating within a balance-of-power framework...
...presence of such an actual situation as this, what becomes of Dumbarton Oaks? It is left the palest of ghosts. It slips through the corridors of the world's chancelleries so insubstantial a wraith that no man can lay hand on it and say, 'Here is a living, breathing, corporeal body!' . . . For what purpose, then, are the delegates going to Cleveland? Is it an invitation to a wake...
...would not sign a treaty regarding her. The plan does not specify the machinery for enforcing permanent disarmament of the Axis. Nor does it guarantee that Britain and Russia, having committed the U.S. to use force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed, might not then decide to junk the Dumbarton Oaks proposals as an unnecessary obstacle to their future freedom of action...