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...presence of such an actual situation as this, what becomes of Dumbarton Oaks? It is left the palest of ghosts. It slips through the corridors of the world's chancelleries so insubstantial a wraith that no man can lay hand on it and say, 'Here is a living, breathing, corporeal body!' . . . For what purpose, then, are the delegates going to Cleveland? Is it an invitation to a wake...
...Those who tried to make the mass of Americans believe Dumbarton Oaks would provide a true federation of all nations and peoples for the building of a lasting peace have faced an almost impossible task. In desperation they have been driven to saying: '. . . Take this, bad as it is, and later make it what it should be.' Yet while they said it, they have known that . . . there is no basis whatever for belief that nations which in this hour of peril will not offer anything better in the form of world organization than this military alliance will change...
...Dumbarton Oaks is not perishing today on account of [its] weaknesses. Conceivably, they could be corrected. . . . Dumbarton Oaks is a ghost-project today because the common sense of the common people has asserted itself to ask one question: What kind of peace is this Dumbarton Oaks charter asking us to guarantee? Until that question can be answered in a way to satisfy the moral demands of the American people, any effort to make them rise to enthusiastic support of Dumbarton Oaks is just so much time wasted. . . . Win a decent peace, a reconciling peace, and a true 'general international...
...gave the No. 1 plank in President Roosevelt's foreign policy all the support that he could ask or want. In Cleveland, at a conference sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, leaders of some 25,000,000 U.S. Protestants voted unanimous, unconditional approval of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security...
This action did not mean that the 500 serious-minded clerics and laymen assembled in Cleveland liked everything about the Dumbarton Oaks plan as it now stands. They had some grave objections, but they decided that since Dumbarton Oaks is all there is, better something than nothing. Said the president of the Federal Council, New York's Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam...