U.N. Balance Sheets
Williams, David C.
U.N. Balance Sheets The United Nations and Promotion of the General Welfare, by Robert E. Asher and associates. The Brookings Institution. 1216 pp. $8.75. Strengthening the United Nations, report...
...Solid reasons why the United Nations has become much more than a talking shop may be found in its record in economic and social affairs, human rights, and the advancement of dependent peoples, exhaustively reviewed in The United Nations and the Promotion of the General Welfare, the aptly-titled third volume of a series of Brookings reports on the self to be a living document, capable of evolving to meet new problems and needs...
...While reiterating the need for a Charter Review Conference, the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, research affiliate of the American Association for the United Nations, devotes its tenth report, Strengthening the United Nations, largely to suggesting ways in which the United Nations can evolve under its present Charter...
...FRANCIS M. WltHOIT, a native North Carolinian who teaches government at the University of Miami, is completing a doctoral thesis for Harvard on "The Politics of Desegregation in Georgia...
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...CHARLES H. STODDARD is a forestry research associate for the organization Resources for the Future...
...Nevertheless, given the extraordinary complexity of the issues, the brief period during which economic and social problems have shared the limelight with political and military problems, and the paralyzing effect—during much of that period—of strife between the free world and the Communist world, the sum total of concrete achievements during the first postwar decade should afford a basis for qualified optimism about the future...
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...While ensuring wide public attention for the report, this coincidence may have had the effect of overshadowing its other recommendations, notably the acquisition and administration of other unoccupied territory, such as the high seas and Antarctica...
...The Commission's distinguished chairman, Professor Arthur N. Holcombe, declares: "We think that a Charter Review Conference might be helpful, though much can be done to strengthen the United Nations by the General Assembly without such a Conference...
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...Even more could be done by the governments of the leading member states, if they could be persuaded to work more resolutely through the United Nations...
...One reason for optimism about the future of the United Nations is the manner in which its Charter, like our own Constitution, has shown itThe United Nations, like Mount Everest, has the quality of being there...
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...A preliminary draft had apparently anticipated an American satellite, but the adjective was fortunately blue-pencilled...
...work and problems of the new international organization...
...276 pp...
...I could wish myself that the Commission had given more attention to the re-activation of the Peace Observation Commission...
...CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT is a professor at the University of Texas Law School...
...DAVID C. WILLIAMS is editor of ADA World...
...he is teaching a special course on films at Teacher's College, Columbia...
...By providential timing, the Commission launched its report, recommending that the United Nations assume jurisdiction over outer space, just after the Russians launched Sputnik...
...The authors illumine the enormous printed record of Lake Success and Turtle Bay with their own wide experience in the practical functioning of the United Nations and its associated agencies...
...He has just completed a book on forestry which Ronald Press will publish...
...Had this Commission been in position to send observers to Budapest in immediate response to Premier Nagy's desperate plea, it is just conceivable that Soviet policy—which apparently wavered during the days that Hungary's freedom hung in balance—might have taken a milder turn...
...Under the editorship of Robert E. Asher, former special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, a distinguished panel of contributors, including Walter M. Kotschnig, William Adams Brown, Jr., James Frederick Green, and Emil J. Sady, have subjected the United Nations record in the field of general welfare to a critical but friendly appraisal...
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...Strengthening the United Nations, report of the commission to study the organization of peace, Arthur N. Holcombe, Chairman...
...we cannot yet say whether the Martians will turn out to be borrowers or investors, we can reasonably assume that these more mundane reaches will be tapped as the world exhausts more accessible resources...
...RICHARD SCHICKEL is a reporter for Look magazine...
...Here is how Asher summarizes their findings: "The record of the United Nations system in harmonizing conflicts of view among member governments, achieving the specialization necessary for effective international action, and contributing to economic and social progress, leaves much to be desired...
...The Security Council seems on the way to joining our own electoral college in limbo, while the General Assembly has embarked upon so lively a career that it is the theatre of competing blocs, just as our own system of government is powered by political parties not provided for by the Founding Fathers...
...The Commission does, however, have cogent recommendations for strengthening the United Nations to fulfill its central purpose of preserving the peace— recommendations which, if carried out, should reduce the temptation to by-pass it...
...Some statesmen may belittle it, some nations may bypass it, but it has already, in a single decade, acquired more reality and even personality than the League of Nations did in two...
...Taken by the United Nations now, they might in the future relieve it of some of its present need to pass the hat among the member states to finance such activities as technical and economic assistance to underdeveloped countries—for the expansion of which the commission calls for the establishment of a United Nations Development Agency as the equivalent of the long-debated Special U.N...
...Reviewed by David C. Williams THE REVIEWERS MARTIN S. DWORKIN is a film critic who reviews regularly for The Progressive...
...his articles and reviews have appeared in The Reporter and The Progressive...
Vol. 22 • March 1958 • No. 3
