Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief business of the conference will be the drafting of a permanent mutual defense treaty to replace temporary wartime defense measures laid down by the Act of Chapultepec (TIME, March 12, 1945). At the Pan-American Conference in Bogotá next January a permanent Inter-American defense board to implement the treaty will be established. While all the American republics see eye to eye on the general nature of the defense treaty, Argentina has an important reservation. She wants the right to veto collective action. On that issue, Fernandes will have a chance to fulfill Brazil's traditional role...
Even worse effects will probably be felt in the realm of international trade. Said the Times: "[The bill] represents the very antithesis of the policy which the nations of the world, under the leadership of the United States, laid down at London and have been seeking to implement at Geneva." With the U.S. stand on wool (TIME, June 2) already blocking agreement at Geneva, the restrictive sugar bill was more evidence that the U.S. was all in favor of freeing world trade-as long as it did not disturb any Congressman's constituents...
...economy is concerned, is great. But the greater danger is the far more dangerous, and more probable, chance that the plans will never win Capitol Hill, or the nation. There is the possibility that the voters, if sufficiently aroused, could exert enough pressure to obtain the money necessary to implement the proposals the President's advisers, and the European statesmen, are considering; but the plan must be sold first, and few real attempts in that direction have been made. To convince a people already groaning under their tax load that even more gifts abroad are not only necessary, but desirable...
Both brains and legwork behind SDA are Crimson: Don Willner '47 serves as national chairman and Charles Sellers '45 organizes in the field. Today's ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant...
...implement this objective we shall cooperate with and help build the labor movement, as we consider it to be the most progressive force in American life. We shall at all times oppose discrimination in any from, whether of color, national origin, religion, political belief, or sex, and we shall fight against fascism wherever it may manifest itself. We shall give our full support to the development of unity among all countries, especially the Great Powers, for without such unity the United Nations can never be an effective instrument for the preservation of world peace...