Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian delegates moved out of Dumbarton Oaks last week, and the Chinese delegates moved in, a crucial fact was highlighted again: no factor is more important to the world's future peace and security than the mind and the mood of Russia. Few could doubt that Russia passionately desires postwar peace and security. And that desire is no mere emotional urge. After World War II, none of the Allies except the U.S. would be capable of sustaining a major war for at least a generation. Russia must have peace and security...
...Russia, at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, had insisted that, in the proposed security league, any one of the Big Four (the U.S., Britain, Russia, China) must have the right to veto any attempt by the league to discipline an aggressor-even if the vetoing power was itself the aggressor. Clearly, Russia's mind was wary, her mood was suspicious...
...Franklin Roosevelt had hopefully said that "the vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions." But a Buenos Aires audience rose to boo and catcall insults when Hull appeared in a newsreel shot of the Dumbarton Oaks conference...
After six weeks of secret discussions, the first phase of the Dumbarton Oaks conference ended; the Russians went home, the Chinese moved in. The Chinese had everyone's sympathy. They, like everyone else, knew that they were there largely to put their own thoughts on record, and then to give approval to what had already been agreed to by the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. At the public opening session China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, got applause even from the supposedly callous correspondents...
...Dumbarton Oaks, the U.S., Britain and Russia reached a 20-page agreement on world security (TIME, Sept. 25). This week it was learned that the Great Blueprint still requires more ironing-out; the Big Three must confer again over a major point. The point: Britain and the U.S. agree with China that no nation, if it is party to a dispute, should have a vote in settling the dispute. Russia realistically believes that a major power, being a major power, should always have a vote on everything...