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ABSTRACT THE San Francisco Conference which issued in the United Nations Charter, signed on June 26, after nine weeks deliberations on the proposals formulated last autumn at Dumbarton Oaks,

by the fifty nations represented, has been compared by President Truman with the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 which led to the framing of the Constitution of the United States. Like that

Constitution, the United Nations Charter represents a compromise, the outcome of close debate and sometimes sharp exchange of conflicting opinions. Like that Constitution again, the Charter

is not claimed to be a final or perfect instrument; and, more clearly than the Covenant of the League of Nations, it provides expressly for its own revision and modification in the light of

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