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...came in five days of political maneuvers, which began quietly and became so explosive that Dewey hugged close to Albany through the weekend, foregoing his usual trip to his Pawling farm. It started when Dewey read news dispatches of the plan Russia was bringing to this week's Dumbarton Oaks conference of the Big Four in Washington. Russia proposed an international air corps tightly controlled by the Big Four (see below). For a day and a half Tom Dewey consulted with his advisers. Then he called newsmen to the five-story hilltop Capitol in Albany and soberly...
...have been deeply disturbed by some of the recent reports concerning the [Dumbarton Oaks] conference. These indicate that it is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this conference. . . . That would be the rankest form of imperialism. . . . The ideals for which we are fighting . . . must not be lost in a cynical peace by which any four powers dominate the earth by force...
...Dumbarton Oaks, palatial Washington estato, Art Museum, and scene of the current United Nations conference, has been Harvard property and a subsidiary of Fogg Museum since late in 1940, when it was turned over to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss of Georgetown...
...Dumbarton Oaks was chosen as site of the present three-power meeting because of its convenient location in Rock Creek, not far from the Capital. It was once the home of John C. Calhoun...
...Alexander Cadogan tried to breathe some hope. He said Britain, in the main, backed the U.S. blueprint for peace. And he added that the Russians had finally put their program in writing and would bring it to the conference. But few observers believed that the men who assemble at Dumbarton Oaks next week will do any major architecting on a peace program...