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...Dumbarton Oaks: Senate ratification by more "than the necessary two-thirds majority seemed certain, with possibly only 15 to 20 votes against...
...opinion abruptly changed: some pessimists even doubted that the conference would open on schedule (April 25) in San Francisco, and the hopes for what it might accomplish steadily lessened. In part, this depression was the result of a belated awakening to the actual, power-political nature of the Dumbarton Oaks scheme for world security. But the news that the Russians were sending a second-rate delegation, that the Big Three had been finagling with the voting rules of the proposed world assembly (see below) was equally discouraging to hardened diplomats and to ordinary people bemused by the rosy propaganda...
...workmanlike group, probably not authorized to make binding decisions, will represent Moscow. All but two of the eight delegates were at Dumbarton Oaks; all speak English. Among them...
...Secret Dealing." The bargain was bad enough, but the deceit was worse. In the proposals drafted last fall at Dumbarton Oaks, and in all the whooping since then, the Assembly had been touted as the forum where all nations, big and small, would have an equal voice. True, a voice was about all the Assembly would have-the power was concentrated in the eleven-member Security Council, dominated by the big fellows. For that very reason, the Assembly's "sovereign equality" was precious to the little fellows...
From the Psychological point of view the agreements made at Dumbarton Oaks fail to satisfy the human requirements necessary for a lasting peace, according to a statement released last night by some 2000 members of the American Psychological Association, headed by Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology. Declaring that "war can be avoided; it is not built into men," the group laid down a program of ten basic methods to strengthen the foundations of peace...