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...first of three 1947 Oliver Wendall Holmes lectures, Evatt described the Dumbarton Oaks conference and the changes in the U.N. Charter made at San Francisco, harking back at several points, however, to the great powers' veto which he termed "one of the great problems that is confronting...
Horn declared that the unilateral action of the U. S. in moving into Greece would not constitute a violation of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization, as the editorial had said. He cited the attempts of the Security Council to investigate the Greek situation which were stymied by similar action on the part of Yugoslavia...
...despite the necessity for helping Greece and the "legality" of our moving in, unilaterial action on the part of the United States in the Greek crisis would constitute a subversion of the United Nations. Chapter VIII, Section 1, of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization states: "The Security Council should be empowered to investigate any dispute or any situation which may lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute in order to determine whether its continuance is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security." Section 6 of the Moscow Declaration is equally explicit: "That...
...Security Council, as well as the absence of the neutral influence of smaller countries not directly concerned with the situation in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that the General Assembly would be more suitable as the supervisory body. (The planned purpose of the General Assembly was defined at Dumbarton Oaks as the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations.") Although the calling of a special meeting of the General Assembly and the time necessary for the wheels of humanitarianism to grind into action would carry considerably beyond the purely arbitrary...
...from Columbia, was teaching public law in China at the outbreak of the Japanese War in 1937, when he was asked by the government to head the executive council of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 1944, he was appointed Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. He attended the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences as a member of the Chinese delegation, and is now China's representative to UNRRA and to the Emergency Food Committee...