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...loveliest ballads that Beers has preserved is Dumbarton's Drums...
...half past ten on the morning of August 22, 1944, representatives of the American, British and Russian governments sat down together at Dumbarton Oaks to plan the United Nations...
...guards surrounded the Georgetown mansion. Reporters were barred from the grounds. They were not even allowed to question the delegates. The conference, it was explained, was merely "preliminary and exploratory." The results would of course be made public. But meanwhile, officials said, the day-to-day debate in the Dumbarton Oaks music room was necessarily confidential...
Reston was only 34 when he broke the Dumbarton Oaks story. He had been in Washington less than a year. He was, as he puts it, "in a hell of a hurry." But there was more to his energy that ambition. He had been in journalism a third of his life, and he had convictions about his calling...
This was just what the government had tried to avoid doing at Dumbarton Oaks, he said. "They knew that years of work had gone into the draft plans that were submitted by the four great powers there. They boasted of the care with which they had worked on the plans which the public had never seen. They knew that as the conference progressed and weeks were spent cabling back and forth between Moscow and Washington on the diction and punctuation of the document, something was being formed that was much more definite and binding than the phrase 'preliminary and exploratory...