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...Hull was cooperative. The Secretary showed Dulles the U.S. plan for the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. He also outlined the chief differences in the British and Russian plans, just as he had done previously for Congressional leaders of both parties...
...shrubbery and secrecy of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, several propositions emerged clearly last week. For despite heavy secrecy, the leaks to the press continued...
From the trickles of information, ob servers could see that the real problem at Dumbarton Oaks is a question that only the U.S. people can answer for themselves. This question, always fundamental in the American dilemma over foreign policy: Are Americans now prepared to commit the U.S. to use force at the orders of an international agency without waiting for a specific declaration of war by Congress...
...once-delayed, well-advertised World Security Conference began this week at stately Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent 16-acre estate set like a jewel in Washington's Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none in a plug hat, strolled down the old pebble walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...
That night silver-haired Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., head of the U.S. delegation, entertained at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel. The menu: broiled chicken, peach ice cream, California wines. Next day: high tea at Blair House. Each day the delegates rode out to Dumbarton Oaks in Army cars for a two-hour morning session and another two-hour grind in the afternoon...