Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of last week's publication of the records of the Yalta conference, Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law and John Henry Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, yesterday advocated releasing the discussions of the 1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference...
Sohn said in a letter to the New York Times that the Yalta papers furnished important information on the early background of the U.N., but found it "strange" that the material from the Dumbarton conference, which formed the basic plans for the U.N. charter, had not been made public first. He said, "After the printing of the Yalta papers, there is no longer any valid excuse for withholding the Dumbarton Oaks papers from the public...
...then complained that no plans had been made for publishing the Dumbarton Oaks papers, which, he said, "can throw valuable light on the meaning of many provisions of the United Nations Charter." In this respect he likened them to James Madison's notes of the Federal Convention...
...Dumbarton Oaks has a library of over 48,000 volumes and much additional research material on early Byzantine and Christian art. The center was given to the University in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
Ernest Kitzinger, associate professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, has been appointed Director of Studies at the University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington. He will assume his duties on July 1, 1955 succeeding Professor A. M. Friend of Princeton...