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Dumbarton Oaks - Search Results - MSN Encarta Dumbarton Oaks, former private estate in Washington, D.C., now owned by Harvard University. Oak, common name for a large genus of hardwood trees that are widespread in the North Temperate Zone. hickory, acacia, alder, ash, aspen, baobab, beech, birch, elm, ginkgo, horse chestnut, laburnum, lime, maple, mesquite, mimosa, oak, plane tree,... encarta.msn.com /Dumbarton_Oaks.html   (193 words)

UN Milestones The UN Conference on Environment and Development, the "Earth Summit", is held in Rio de Janeiro attended by leaders from over 100 countries, the largest intergovernmental gathering in history, resulting in Agenda 21, a plan of action for sustainable development. The International Conference on Population and Development, is held in Cairo, attended by representatives from 179 countries and addressed by 249 speakers. A conference is held in San Francisco, California to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. www.un.org /aboutun/milestones.htm   (2176 words)

Dumbarton Oaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dumbarton Oaks is a 19th-century Federal-style mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It currently houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, a center for scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies and the history of landscape architecture. In 1940, they donated their collections together with the house and its grounds to create the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, to be managed by the trustees of Harvard University. In 1944, Dumbarton Oaks hosted the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, an international meeting that laid the groundwork for the creation of the United Nations. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks   (400 words)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Dumbarton Oaks Conference (or Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization), held beginning in August 1944 in a Washington, DC mansion (Dumbarton Oaks), was where the United Nations was formulated and negotiated. The conference was attended by representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of China. The conference was followed up by a San Francisco Conference, where the Security Council veto powers were established. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks_Conference   (158 words)

Harvard University Press: The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations and the United Nations, 1944 - 1994 by Ernest R. May In 1994, the "Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944-1994" brought together scholars and policymakers who have been involved with the study of international organizations or have played important roles in them. The conference papers in this volume examine both the formation of the United Nations and a number of current issues, including human rights, collective economic sanctions, peacekeeping operations, and the evolution of the role of the secretary-general. Angeliki E. Laiou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University and a former Director of Dumbarton Oaks. www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/MAYDUM.html   (266 words)

::The Dumbarton Oaks Conference:: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held between August and October 1944. The principal objective of Dumbarton Oaks was to discuss the possibilities of creating an international organisation that would maintain world peace after the end of World War Two. This was to come to light at the Yalta meeting again and continued at the San Francisco conference of April to June 1945. www.historylearningsite.co.uk /dumbarton_oaks_conference.htm   (207 words)

LaRouche Online Almanac The conference had to be divided because Russia and China had different positions in the war against Japan: China was a belligerent and Russia was neutral. The result of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was an outline of the principles, purposes, membership and general organization of a new international body, which was to be called the United Nations. The final proposals made at Dumbarton Oaks were made the basis for discussion at an international conference of all the United Nations at San Francisco, which began on April 25, 1945, not quite two weeks after President Roosevelt's death on April 12. www.larouchepub.com /eiw/public/2005/2005_30-39/2005-34/index.html   (3512 words)

Yalta Conference Documents That a United Nations conference on the proposed world organization should be summoned for Wednesday, 25 April, 1945, and should be held in the United States of America. The nations to be invited to this conference should be: (a) the United Nations as they existed on 8 Feb., 1945; and (b) Such of the Associated Nations as have declared war on the common enemy by 1 March, 1945. MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS The conference agreed that the question of the major war criminals should be the subject of inquiry by the three Foreign Secretaries for report in due course after the close of the conference. www.seattleu.edu /artsci/history/us1945/docs/yalta.htm   (1707 words)

Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts Selected Dumbarton Oaks publications are available on the web in an effort to increase access to the material. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (PDF, 5.2 MB), Brief introduction to the scholarly activities, collections, and gardens. All texts are copyright by Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. www.doaks.org /etexts.html   (366 words)

DUMBARTON OAKS C) as agreed upon at the Crimea Conference and announced by the Secretary of State on Mar. 5, 1945. It should perform such functions in relation to the election of the judges of the international court of justice as may be conferred upon it by the statute of the court. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the Organization, members of the Organization should by the Charter confer on the Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and should agree that in carrying out these duties under this responsibility it should act on their behalf. www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1944/441007a.html   (3210 words)

TIME.com: Enter the Chinese -- Oct. 9, 1944 -- Page 1 After six weeks of secret discussions, the first phase of the Dumbarton Oaks conference ended; the Russians went home, the Chinese moved in. Dumbarton Oaks had turned out to be exactly as advertised: a technical meeting by non-policymaking officials (TIME, Aug. 28). It now appeared probable that a full-dress international conference of all nations, big and small, to form a new league would not be held until next year. www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,803334,00.html   (496 words)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) DUMBARTON OAKS CONFERENCE [Dumbarton Oaks Conference] see United Nations. Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Dumbarton Oaks Conference" at HighBeam. Archaeology of Formative Ecuador: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995.(Book Review) www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-dumbartoc.html   (169 words)

The founding of the United Nations From August to October 1944, representatives of Britain, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States held a series of meetings at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C. The goal of these meetings was to plan a peacekeeping organization. This conference would use the plan worked out at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference to help prepare a charter for the UN. At the conference, some major disagreements arose between the Big Three (Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States) and the smaller, less powerful nations. franklaughter.tripod.com /cgi-bin/histprof/misc/unitednations.html   (709 words)

Wikinfo | United Nations The 1945 UN Charter envisaged a system of regulation that would ensure "the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources." The advent of nuclear weapons came only weeks after the signing of the Charter and provided immediate impetus to concepts of arms limitation and disarmament. The UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, led to the creation of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development to advance the conclusions reached in Agenda 21, the final text of agreements negotiated by governments at UNCED; The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, in September 1995, sought to accelerate implementation of the historic agreements reached at the Third World Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985; and www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=UN   (2391 words)

A Century of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 1901-2005 From 1928 to 1935, Pearson served in the Canadian Foreign Ministry and represented the dominion in a number of disarmament conferences and the League of Nations. He became the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. in 1944 and represented Canada at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944 and the San Francisco Conference in 1945. From 1946 to 1956, Pearson led the Canadian delegation at the United Nations, serving as the Chairman of the General Assembly from 1952 to 1953. www.indiana.edu /~nobel/united.php?lid=29   (553 words)

Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks; American Economic and Political Postwar Planning in the Summer of 1944:Schild, Georg ... This book compares the postwar planning conference of the Treasury, held at Bretton Woods, and the planning conference of the State Department, held at Dumbarton Oaks. At the Dumbarton Oaks conference held from August through October 1944, the State Department deliberately did not impose such prerequisites, but hoped to include all World War II Allies in the new collective security structure of the United Nations. By comparing the two conferences, Dr. Schild presents a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Washington's intentions for the world that were to emerge following the defeat of the Axis powers. www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0312122160   (219 words)

Truman Library - J. Wesley Adams Oral History Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) One of the amusing aspects of the Conference was to observe Senator [Tom] Connally's performance in the committee sessions which I attended. The war in Europe, which ended during the Conference, and the war in the Far East which was still going on, had produced a feeling of cooperation among the allies. She sat there pleasantly for about fifteen minutes at which point the Brazilian chairman of the Conference announced: "Gentlemen, we have a very distinguished visitor, and in honor of the occasion I suggest we temporarily adjourn to the banquet hall and drink a toast of champagne to her presence. www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/adamsjw.htm   (20096 words)

TIME.com: The Debate Begins -- Aug. 28, 1944 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) It started when Dewey read news dispatches of the plan Russia was bringing to this week's Dumbarton Oaks conference of the Big Four in Washington. These indicate that it is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this conference. In some of these proposals there appears to be a cynical intention that the four great Allied powers shall continue for all time to dominate the world by force and through. www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,885570,00.html   (673 words)

United Nations - SourceWatch The UN was founded on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, California, following the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, DC, but the first General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, was not held until January 10, 1946 (held in Central Hall Westminster, London). United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested the name "United Nations" and the first offical use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations. The UN came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council - China, France, USSR, UK, and the United States - and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=United_Nations   (2324 words)

UNIMUN Conference Handbook - Chapter IV Representatives participating in UNIMUN should be familiar with the history of the United Nations, as well as the rapidly changing role that the organization plays in international affairs. In 1944, the United States, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R. and China met in Washington, D.C. at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, where the first blueprint of the United Nations was prepared. The UNIMUN Conference Handbook is © Copyright 2000, by American Model United Nations, Inc.(AMUN) Reproduction of any part of these handbooks may be made only by written consent of AMUN. www.unimun.org /unimun_hb_4.html   (2005 words)

AllRefer.com - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia AllRefer.com - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > United Nations > Dumbarton Oaks Conference More articles from AllRefer Reference on Dumbarton Oaks Conference reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/X/X-DumbartOC.html   (125 words)

H-Net Review: S. David Broscious on Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks: American Economic and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks: American Economic and Political Postwar Planning in the Summer of 1944. Distilled to less than two hundred pages, his account examines both the preparations leading to the Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks conferences and the conferences themselves. He contends that U.S. policymakers, drawing on the turbulent political and economic events of the interwar period, concluded that they had to plan ahead if they were to forestall another Thirty Years' Crisis. www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8491849132466   (1051 words)

United Nations - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Background and history The idea for the United Nations was elaborated in declarations signed at the wartime Allied conferences in Moscow and Tehran in 1943. Human Rights The pursuit of human rights was one of the central reasons for creating the United Nations. International Conferences The member countries of the UN and its specialized agencies - the "stakeholders" of the system - give guidance and make decisions on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout each year. www.questionz.net /Universe/Earth/United_Nations.html   (2473 words)

Byzantine Studies Conference: Business Meeting 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Nancy Sevcenko urged all who are interested to make their submissions for papers as soon as possible even though the initial September deadline has passed. Dues cost $30 per year as of January 2000, and interested BSC members are invited to become members by contacting Robert Allison directly or via the web site. Leslie Brubaker announces a conference taking place on April 1-4, 2000. www.byzconf.org /archives/1999business.html   (581 words)

Amazon.com: Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Chavin, October 26,27, 1968: Books: Elizabeth P. Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Amazon.com: Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Chavin, October 26,27, 1968: Books: Elizabeth P. Benson Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Chavin, October 26,27, 1968 (Hardcover) More ways to save on hotels near Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. www.amazon.com /Dumbarton-Oaks-Conference-Chavin-October/dp/0884020371   (382 words)

October 07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Future cosmonaut Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov born in Dauriya, Chita, Russia. Dumbarton Oaks Conference - U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations First of three XS-1 (later X-1) rocket research airplanes moved from Bell Aircraft's Niagara Falls plant to Muroc, Calif. References: 17. www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/thisday/octber07.htm   (380 words)

SAA Bulletin 17(5): Obituary - Schele In Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Mesoamerican Sites and World Views, edited by Elizabeth P. Benson, pp. Today, Alfonso Morales is contributing as an archaeologist to the Precolumbian history of Palenque and Palenque is being mapped accurately by Schele's student, Ed Barnhart. Schele (1986) also collaborated with archaeologist and ceramicist Robert Rands (they were research fellows together at Dumbarton Oaks in 1975­1976) on the definition of sequential development in the technology and design of tombs and temples at the site (L. Schele, 1986, The Founders of Lineages at Copán and Other Maya Sites. www.saa.org /publications/saabulletin/17-5/saa15.html   (774 words)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference — Infoplease.com Related content from HighBeam Research on: Dumbarton Oaks Conference Archaeology of Formative Ecuador: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995.(Book...... Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.(Book Review) www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0912715.html   (140 words)

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