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...high good humor, old Cordell Hull called in a bipartisan group of Congressmen to announce the news: Dumbarton Oaks was winding up its work. The U.S., Britain and Russia had seen eye-to-eye on the Great Blueprint for world organization. Minor details could wait. The important fact, said the Secretary of State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks...
Some time soon, Cordell Hull hinted, Big Four statesmen of a higher rank than the Dumbarton Oaks delegates will get together and approve this tentative outline. Early in 1945, the plan will be presented to the U.S. Senate in full-blown treaty form, and then at last the U.S. may hear the many-times postponed Great Debate...
From another side of the ideological field Dumbarton Oaks was also attacked. The leftist Nation was encouraged by the fact that the Big Four had decided to work together in peace, no matter how. But the whole Blueprint reminded the Nation of an old-fashioned four-power alliance...
...completely disarmed . . . and the means of rearmament must be forbidden them. . . ." Dewey drew a careful distinction between the immediate peace with Germany and Japan, and the planning of a long-range peace organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot basis. . . . That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man, or three or four...
Since the Dumbarton Oaks Conference cannot now guarantee that the U.S. people and its Congress will approve such a major change in U.S. tradition-even in the interests of international security-the present conference can do no more than hash over the details, make suggestions...