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There, in the red plush seats, was Dumbarton Oaks and all the hope that may be in it. There, in the eminent flesh, were all the big words and the cloudy labels: General Assembly, Security Council, Court of International Justice, trusteeships, multilateral and unilateral, collective security...
...drafters of Dumbarton Oaks frankly proposed that the Council, rather than the Assembly, should have "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." The Council may (not must) "investigate any dispute, or any situation which may lead to international friction"; but all members promise to seek a solution of disputes through negotiation, mediation, judicial settlement, or ''other peaceful means." The main job of the Council is to press the parties to settle disputes by themselves. Only in the event of failure does the Security Council swing into action...
Staff, or spokesmen for them). The Dumbarton Oaks draft includes no provision for a standing international police force, but relies instead on military forces of the principal nations...
...Dumbarton Oaks draft enjoins the Security Council to encourage and work through "regional arrangements and agencies." But the proposals neither define "regional arrangements" nor draw a clear line between them and the master world-arrangement. On only one aspect of this question are the proposals crystal-clear: "No enforcement action should be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council...
...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...