Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the changes at San Francisco materially alter Big Power control of the all-powerful Security Council, or make the new organization any less impotent to deal with disagreements among the Big Powers. At base, the charter is still a Big Power alliance. But there is this vital and heartening difference: the lesser powers now are parties to the alliance, and in minor respects may even press their views upon the controlling partners. And they have at hand machinery to build up their role and importance in the new United Nations...
Stressing the vital importance of the CATS mission, Brigadier-General Bryan said that Civil Affairs officers have to furnish the follow-through to the Army's combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued
...countries had some sensible arguments on their side. We went along on a lot of points. Nothing essential, you understand. We will get the Pacific bases on our own terms. We hold a veto in the Security Council. We have almost a majority of the Assembly on any really vital issue that might come up there and the charter is better now than it was. No doubt about that...
Although the war in Europe is over, U.S. manufacturers are-and for some time will remain-frozen out of the British market by exchange restrictions. For Britain, in order to rebuild at home and recover her export markets, intends to use her limited dollar resources almost entirely to buy vital food and essential raw materials. To U.S. firms anxious not to lose their British customers to British competitors, the alternative is to manufacture in Britain...
...C.I.O. also agreed to waive initiation fees for veterans and to protect their seniority. Most A.F. of L. unions have done the same, and for the same reason: labor wants veterans as union members, not as opponents. But this does not mean that labor, to whom seniority is as vital as private property is to business, is not ready to fight for the seniority rights of its members...