Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace plans of the Dumbarton Oaks conference will come under scrutiny at Cabot Hall of Radcliffe tomorrow afternoon when Vera Michales Dean will address a joint meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union and the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
Caught in the middle of this spite war, like an innocent bystander, was mild Ben Cohen, almost the only early New Dealer left in Washington, and for the past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department. Furthermore he had been offered the job by Secretary of State Stettinius...
...dream job" went to fast-rising James Barrett ("Scotty") Reston, 35, a kinetic, knowing reporter. During the recent Dumbarton Oaks conference, he was usually 24 hours ahead of other newsmen, reportedly because of news sources in the British delegation, who had known him earlier as a well-grounded London correspondent...
...year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar security, no great power (e.g., Russia) should be disciplined without its consent...
...only one who thought so. From Washington, New York Timesman James B. Reston reported that Canada had already prepared recommendations to alter the Dumbarton Oaks formula. As that formula now stands, all peace-loving nations outside the Big Five are equally eligible for places on the Security Council. But in any future war Canada would obviously have to carry a heavier load than a nation like Panama. The Canadians, wrote Reston, were asking that representation on the Security Council, other than the Big Five, be restricted to countries with the will and power to put forces at the Council...