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...word joint communique, the Big Four this week told what Dumbarton Oaks accomplished. In general, their plan for a brave new world followed already revealed outlines (TIME, June 12 et sea.). But the communique added these details...
...Moscow to see Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS). The British and the Russians had certain mutual problems (Poland, the Balkans). But there were still big question marks that required the presence of all three to solve: 1) what to do with Germany; 2) how to decide what Dumbarton Oaks left undecided. Said the Administration source: the Big Three will keep their post-election date "whether or not the President is re-elected...
Franklin Roosevelt gave Dumbarton Oaks his accolade: "Well begun." Tom Dewey chimed in with approval, too. But still unanswered is the basic question: How can the new world order stop an aggression by one of its own Big Five? Russia wanted a chance to veto any Security Council decision involving her; the U.S., Britain and China did not. That remained to be talked out at a "higher level," i.e., Churchill-Stalin-Roosevelt (see above...
After six weeks of secret discussions, the first phase of the Dumbarton Oaks conference ended; the Russians went home, the Chinese moved in. The Chinese had everyone's sympathy. They, like everyone else, knew that they were there largely to put their own thoughts on record, and then to give approval to what had already been agreed to by the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. At the public opening session China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, got applause even from the supposedly callous correspondents...
...Dumbarton Oaks had turned out to be exactly as advertised: a technical meeting by non-policymaking officials (TIME...