Dumbarton Oaks

He is also preparing a book on the history of the idea of Ethiopia from antiquity onward.

But the discussion that we're having today is based on an article that has been accepted for publication in the Dumbarton Oaks papers.

Probably won't appear for a while, you know, given the delay in the publication of academic papers, sort of inevitable.

And this one is on a monk in late antique Egypt that I mentioned.

The big four powers have announced their proposals for a new League of Nations.

The blueprint of a world organization, product of seven weeks of conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, was released simultaneously this noon in Washington, London, Moscow, and Chongqing.

It begins with a simple but momentous statement.

There should be established an international organization under the title of the United Nations.

The recommendations of the conferees do not go into the vital matter of just how the security council would order the League's military power into action should peace be threatened.

The outline still is only in the proposal stage and admittedly is incomplete.

However, the governments represented at Dumbarton Oaks, Russia, Britain, China, and the United States agreed to move as swiftly as possible to prepare complete proposals that could serve as a basis of discussion at a full United Nations conference.

Still to be settled, presumably by higher government officials, is the ticklish and all-important question of voting procedure in the Security Council if one of the permanent members should become involved in a dispute.

So I love that one, and it's still beautifully maintained, and it's open to the public.

I also love Dumbarton Oaks, which is in Georgetown in Washington, D.C., and it's really beautiful.

If you're ever in the Washington, D.C. area, have you been to Dumbarton Oaks? No.

Gorgeous.

It's such a beautiful Italianate garden made for the Bliss husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, made by Beatrix Ferrand, who is our top... landscape, one of the top landscape architects in the country, and a woman, which is unusual.

I'm a big like romanticizer, you know, headphones in strolling kind of vibe.

And my favorite place to do that is Dumbarton Oaks because it is gorgeous.

It is stunning.

It has so many romantic features and gardens and has this gorgeous orangery with these orange trees and like reflecting pools and just really beautifully manicured lawns.

And it's not just a few hallways.

Right here they mention that there are photos of it published by Dumbarton Oaks and the Byzantium Legacy.

So let's see these pictures.

This was all supposedly hammered out.

The big four powers have announced their proposals for a new League of Nations.

The blueprint of a world organization, product of seven weeks of conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, was released simultaneously this noon in Washington, London, Moscow, and Chongqing.

It begins with a simple but momentous statement.

There should be established an international organization under the title of the United Nations.

The recommendations of the conferees do not go into the vital matter of just how the Security Council would order the League's military power into action should peace be threatened.

The outline still is only in the proposal stage, and admittedly is incomplete.

However, the governments represented at Dumbarton Oaks, Russia, Britain, China, and the United States agreed to move as swiftly as possible to prepare complete proposals that could serve as a basis of discussion at a full United Nations conference.

Still to be settled, presumably by higher government officials, is the ticklish and all-important question of voting procedure in the Security Council if one of the permanent members should become involved in a dispute.

and the C&O Canal runs right through the neighborhood.

First stop, Dumbarton Oaks.

It's a house and gardens on a hilltop.

The house is from 1801, and Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss bought it in 1920.

The National Arboretum blooms later too.

Stanton Park on Capitol Hill is small and lovely.

And Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown has Cherry Hill, a slope of cherry trees at the bottom of the garden, which ties back to number five.

And I'll say it again.

Long before our enemies surrendered, the foundations had been laid on which to continue this unity in the peace to come.

The Atlantic meeting in 1941 and the conferences at Casablanca, Quebec, Moscow, Cairo, Tehran, and Dunbarton Oaks each added a stone to the structure.

Early in 1945 at Yalta, the three major powers broadened and solidified this base of understanding.

Their fundamental decisions were reached concerning the occupation and control of Germany.

In 1945, representatives of fifty countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, and they drew up the United Nations Charter.

And those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by representatives of China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August, October 1944.

It was signed on twenty-sixth June 1945.

Fifty countries, Poland was not represented, and became one of the original fifty-one member states.