Dumbarton Oaks!

[Ruth Kagan]

Hope you're all enjoying your summers!

Jeff and I paid a visit to Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown yesterday, where, as the plaque titled "Dumbarton Oaks Conversations, 1944" reads:

The delegates to the Dumbarton Oaks Conversations agreed on a tentative proposal to meet these goals on October 7, 1944. In his Witness to History, 1929-1969, C.E., Bohlen observed that "Dumbarton Oaks settled all but two issues regarding the organization of the United Nations—the voting procedure in the Security Council and the Soviet pressure for the admission of all sixteen of the Soviet republics to the General Assembly. It took the conference at Yalta, plus further negotiations with Moscow, before the issues were solved."

The amenities might be a little nicer than our delegates have in Boston, since I'm not sure that the Sheraton and BPP have 15th century frescoes by the pool, fountains, or painted ceilings in committee rooms. It's also owned by Harvard (?!), so it's free admission. 

Anyways, thought it merited sharing and recommending to anyone who might find themselves in DC (now or in the future)! A little off the beaten path but definitely worth it, and a powerful site of where all this came together.

[Samuel Leiter]

This would be cuter if I hadn't just spent the last 48 hours writing about Dumbarton Oaks (and related periods in history) for my HMUN China study guide, but it's still pretty cute. 

[Teresa Y.]

okay, I just watched the Hobbit with Chinese subtitles so now I understand errything

and it looks fab! hope you guys had fun!