The San Francisco Conference

A LTHOUGH SAN FRANCISCO faces on the Pacific, the ears of most of the delegates to the United Nations Conference have been attuned to events in Europe during the nine weeks of their deliberations. Attention to European affairs and to the possible operation of the new United Nations Organization in future European disputes has been a natural result of world events. Since the Conference opened, war has ended in Europe, immediate and pressing problems of reconstruction confront the majority of nations represented at San Francisco, and the Polish and Syrian questions have provided a preview of that long list of problems yet to be solved before peace can be established. War in the Pacific still goes on and ticklish post-war problems in the Far East have only begun to rise above the surface of wartime operations. Those delegates from the Pacific area and Asiatic countries, however, as well as certain representatives of nations having interests in the Far East, like the United States, have been fully aware of the importance of Far Eastern problems and of the potential role of the new organization in the maintenance of peace across the Pacific. Nevertheless, there has been little discussion-as yet concerning the application of the principles and the powers of the component parts of the new international organization to Far Eastern questions even now looming on the horizon. Having in mind the failure of the League of Nations to deal adequately with the Manchurian affair, it is important to evaluate the work done here in San Francisco with reference to post-war developments in Asia and the Pacific area. The Charter has now taken final form and the scope and functions of the new United Nations Organization can be clearly discerned. There is an inevitable tendency to compare this Charter with the League Covenant, to draw up a balance sheet and attempt to determine in what aspects the new organization is an advance over the League of Nations and to what degree there has been retrogression from the League. This is not a fair comparison, for the United Nations did not start their deliberations with the Covenant of the League before them as a working paper; they had before them the skeleton of an organization known as

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• The Genesis of the Veto

  Open Access•Dwight E Lee•International Organization•1947

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• Diplomatic platitudes’

  Marika Sherwood•Immigrants & Minorities•1996

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• The Arab League as a Regional Arrangement

  Open Access•Majid Khadduri•American Journal of International…•1946

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