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People who had nothing better to worry about last week noted a strong dendrophile tendency in the Big Three. They could not stay away from trees. There had been Bretton Woods (see below) and Dumbarton Oaks. Now they were at Potsdam, a German version of the old Slavonic name, Poztupimi, which means "under the oaks...
Into the State Department as a special assistant (and probably later as State's legal counsel), came quiet, unstuffy Benjamin Victor Cohen. This was a sweet morsel for both Byrnes and Cohen. After Dumbarton Oaks (which Ben Cohen had helped to draft), he had been slated for the State Department's top legal post. Despite Byrnes's insistence he had been blocked, had failed to get the support expected from Franklin Roosevelt. In deep disappointment, Ben Cohen had resigned but stayed in harness without Federal pay as Byrnes's general counsel in the Office...
Only 25% of the San Francisco charter was picked up from the Big Powers' original Dumbarton Oaks draft. That 25% was still the backbone of the charter and of the new United Nations organization. But-the changes were many and important. Mostly they came in stating the purposes and principles of the organization and in the "curative" functions designed to deal with the underlying causes of war. In these provisions, the charter represented real progress toward real internationalism...
...Peoples." Dumbarton Oaks had no preamble at all, scarcely a mention of right or justice. The new charter has a preamble which is loaded with principled phrases (see above). Perhaps cynics who scorned the affirmations of faith in tolerance, freedom, equality, hu man dignity and better standards of life forgot that whole economic and social programs had been based upon an equally vague phrase in the U.S. Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms...
That was the worst day. The best day was May 3. Then the Big Four announced the amendments they had agreed upon. These 22 amendments contained, the seedlings of San Francisco's main improvements over Dumbarton Oaks (see above). Looking back, it was apparent that on May 3 the conference turned the corner...