Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighter. In many ways, Cordell Hull's place was unique. Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning...
...peace delegation, John Foster Dulles saw the failure of Versailles at first hand. As chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, he campaigned hard for sane internationalism. And as foreign affairs advisor to Thomas E. Dewey he approved Dumbarton Oaks. But last week Foster Dulles, at a Presbyterian conference in Brooklyn, sounded a sharp warning. Said...
...Dumbarton Oaks proposals represent an achievement. But in their present state they represent only a partial agreement of four nations. It remains to complete that agreement, not only within the Big Four, but by enabling the smaller nations to come along as willing partners...
...European bloc, would urge that French interests will be fully safeguarded by the proposed international security organization of which France will be a full-fledged top member. But General de Gaulle could scarcely fail to point-out that though the skeleton of the international organization was set up at Dumbarton Oaks, some important points had to be settled before that organization could come to life...
...Britain and Belgium was only a first step. During Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to General de Gaulle, Communist influence had muffled talk of a Western Bloc (TIME, Nov. 20). But Foreign Minister Spaak would not stay muffled. He said: "I want to emphasize that the Dumbarton Oaks scheme made particular reference to what are called regional arrangements. Belgium can envisage the conclusion of a regional accord with France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and possibly Norway...