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This week, as a supplement to its May issue, FORTUNE pub lishes an analysis of Dumbarton Oaks by a group of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE editors. The gist...
...shall not be able perhaps to secure all that we desire," Tom Connally said. "We shall not be able to bring back perfection." But Senator Connally wanted to emphasize two facts: 1) San Francisco will be nonpartisan, so far as the U.S. delegation is concerned; 2) Dumbarton Oaks will be liberalized. Moved by the solemnity of the occasion and of his own words, Tom Connally sat down in tears...
...interval between Yalta and San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg worked long & hard at another project: to liberal ize the provisions of Dumbarton Oaks...
...chief aims: 1) to insure a review of international decisions by the world security organization, especially those made under the stress of war; 2) to infuse into the cold, bureaucratic Dumbarton Oaks proposals a measure of justice, i.e., to add to Dumbarton Oaks a Bill of Rights for the world. He already has this satisfaction: his proposals have been accepted by the U.S. delegation and the State Department and will be offered to the convention...
...event, another man would be Harry Truman's principal adviser on foreign affairs. That man was Jimmy Byrnes (see U.S. AT WAR), whose responsibilities would include many other matters as well. A good deal was known about his world attitude. He was for Dumbarton Oaks, the Yalta agreements, Big-Power leadership ("They have the votes, don't they?"), The Big-Power veto in the proposed World Security Council seemed logical to him. So did the agreement on Poland, because it recognized the fact that Stalin held the top cards. On trusteeship, this same instinct forgetting the votes count...