Dumbarton Oaks
/ˌdʌmbɑːtn ˈəʊks/
/ˌdʌmbɑːrtn ˈəʊks/
- a large house in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC, in which the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held in 1944 to discuss the idea of forming the United Nations. The four countries with representatives at the conference were the US, Britain, the USSR and China.
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