Word: dumbarton
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Authority to Act. In the second half of his speech he spoke of his own views. One of them: the United Nations organization, well begun at Dumbarton Oaks, should be completed before the war is over. And he stated flatly that, in his opinion, the U.S. representative on the United Nations Council "must be endowed in advance by the people themselves, by constitutional means through their representatives in Congress, with authority...
...Midwest Senators who disagree wholeheartedly on almost every detail of U.S. foreign policy saw eye to eye last week on one point. Both thought it high time for the two Presidential candidates to make a few clear, forceful statements about the questions that emerged at Dumbarton Oaks...
World Security. Here Tom Dewey successfully moved to make U.S. foreign policy both positive and bipartisan. He had loosed a blast at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, expressing fears that Dumbarton Oaks would degenerate into a Big Power conference serving only the Big Powers' ends. When Cordell Hull rose to defend himself, Dewey promptly sent Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles as his emissary to the State Department. The U.S. people, who had known little of Foster Dulles, learned that this scholarly, experienced lawyer might be Tom Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. Whatever exuberant hatchet jobs were subsequently...
...Once the Dumbarton Oaks plan was published, Tom Dewey gave his hearty approval. On the record, he stood at least even-Stephen with Franklin Roosevelt on world-security plans...
During the strawberry parfait and champagne Stalin rose again and toasted: "To those who worked for the peace of the world at Dumbarton Oaks. . . . But [the Allies] must be prepared for peace...