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Dumbarton Oaks, palatial Washington estato, Art Museum, and scene of the current United Nations conference, has been Harvard property and a subsidiary of Fogg Museum since late in 1940, when it was turned over to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss of Georgetown, D. C.

Dumbarton Oaks was chosen as site of the present three-power meeting because of its convenient location in Rock Creek, not far from the Capital. It was once the home of John C. Calhoun.

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