Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Ratified the U.N. Charter, Articles 55-56 of which pledge members to promote, among other things, "conditions of economic and social progress" and respect for rights "without distinction as to race."
In New York City's Union Square, barricaded by police, a crowd of 5,000 took its cue from prompters on a sound truck, wept through the time of electrocution, sang Go Down, Moses, abused President Eisenhower as "bloodthirsty," shouted a pledge to carry on the work of the...
Turkey. The Soviet Union offered to recognize Turkish sovereignty over border territories of Kars. Ardahan and Artvin in return for a pledge by Turkey to ask for a revision of the 1936 Montreux Convention. Kars, Ardahan and Artvin, part of the old Ottoman Empire, were ceded to Russia after the...
In place of the rider, Eisenhower volunteered a personal pledge: his Administration would not only vote against the admission of Red China to the U.N., but would actively oppose its admission.* That did the trick. Next day Senate leaders substituted a resolution virtually the same as one adopted by the...
A Few Words. The President's pledge, and the Senate's resolution, put the U.S. on record on the question of U.N. membership for Red China. But they did nothing to ease the tensions between the U.S. and its allies. Last week, in the wake of the President...