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...poetic tradition; I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of History of Science, the development and the influence of Newton's ideas on the eighteenth century; Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '26, Curator of Recent Insects, the Australian carabid beetles; Glanville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the history of Antioch on the Orontes...
Puente previously had tried to sue the University of $1,000,000 in May 1955, at Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia court ruled that it had no jurisdiction and that the plaintiff would have to file his claim in Massachusetts. Puente had asserted that since the University-owned Dumbarton Oaks was situated in the District of Columbia he could lawfully sue in Washington...
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...
With a clumsiness to bring guffaws from a third-rate union negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good-naturedly, the Westerners agreed to help add two Red birds, Byelorussia and the Ukraine, to the nest. On the very evening that the eagles had their frank talk about the small birds, even before the blueprint for the U.N. had been agreed upon, disillusion began...