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Everybody said that San Francisco made progress. But how much and what kind of progress, from where to where? Was the charter just Dumbarton Oaks festooned with a Spanish moss of phrases? Or did it bring the world nearer to genuine world government...
When John Foster Dulles went to San Francisco as chief consultant to the U.S. delegation, he took with him "serious reservations" about the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. These reservations had been expressed by the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Jan. 29). whose Commission for a Just and Durable Peace is headed by Dulles. This week Dulles reported to the doubting Council...
...which when ratified will bring into being a world organization. It is much that 50 nations were able to agree on any charter. I can, however, report more than mere agreement. The charter agreed upon is one which fulfills our hopes even beyond our expectations. . . . [We sought] that these [Dumbarton Oaks] proposals should be modified in important respects. That has been done. The charter which emerges from San Francisco is a totally different instrument from the draft of Dumbarton Oaks...
...very large extent the specific recommendations made by our church groups have been given effect. The basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This...
...advocate any Dumbarton Oaks plan, and then shear ourselves of the power to carry it out, would be even worse than our refusal to join the attempt at world organization...