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...Road to Dublin. An old contradiction, plain at San Francisco, became even more inescapable with every month that passed. People everywhere sincerely sought two objectives that were hard to reconcile. They wanted a world organization strong enough to keep peace; they also wanted their own nations to be really sovereign, i.e., strong enough to defend themselves against any "aggressor," including the world organization...
Fifty men & women who thought they knew how to bridge the perilous fission between these ideas met at Dublin, N.H. They were invited by four distinguished citizens: former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts; Grenville Clark, a New York attorney who did much to sell conscription to the U.S. public before Pearl Harbor; Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire (1911-13) and Bull-Moose friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas H. Mahony, a locally prominent Boston lawyer and internationalist...
...U.N.O.'s weak Assembly the Dublin planners would substitute a strong world legislature. To get around the reluctance of the larger powers to enter a legislature numerically dominated by small nations, the Dublin plan picked up one of Clark's pet ideas: weighted representation, under which voting power would be based on "natural and industrial resources and other relevant factors as well as population...
Member nations would run their own domestic affairs; the legislature would be permitted to operate only in the field of international order and security. But the Dublin debate made it clear that the line between domestic and world affairs would be hard to draw...
...week's end there were no signs that the Dublin statement had tapped any deep springs of world statism in the U.S. About all the Dubliners had actually done was to drive one more nail in U.N.O.'s coffin...