Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea for this kind of peace conference, staged without pomp and with strictly limited membership, was an American idea. It was suggested at San Francisco by Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn, a State Department career man for 25 years. The suggestion was approved by President Truman, sold by him to Stalin and Attlee at Potsdam. It was eagerly snapped up by Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes, who knew instinctively that he would be thoroughly at home at a meeting where a few men could talk plainly behind closed doors. It was exactly what he had done...
...approved Bretton Woods (see above) and Hot Springs (U.S. membership in the United Nations food organization), extended and improved reciprocal trade agreements, extended Lend-Lease, upped the Export-Import Bank's lending powers from $700 million to $3.5 billion, continued Selective Service and price controls, upped the national debt limit to $300 billion, set up a $5.7-billion tax-relief program for reconverting war industries (TIME...
...Cecil Norton Broy ("Americans United Inc."; membership: 25). To her the pact "provides for dirty Big Five domination...
Bess Truman, who has not yet been labeled pink, white, or red by the Russophobe press,, calmly accepted membership in a new organization set up to replace books destroyed by the Nazis in Russia. Her jawbreaking title: Honorary Chairman of the English Classics Collection of Books for Russian War Relief...
...onetime Missouri farm boy had some potent bargaining weapons in his luggage. Congress had already passed the reciprocal-trade bill, and was set to approve Bretton Woods and the San Francisco Charter. Russia has already been offered membership on the Combined Coal Committee, and would be invited at Berlin to join the Combined Production and Resources Board and the Combined Food Board. Moreover, in his pocket, Harry Truman held Marshal Stalin's request for $6 billion in postwar loans...