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Power Politics and International Organization*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

Herbert W. Briggs
Herbert W. Briggs*
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Extract

The Charter of the United Nations, signed at San Francisco on June 26, 1945, states in Article 2 (1) that “ the Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.” Since the outstanding characteristics of the Charter are its recognition of the actual and legal inequality of the Members of the United Nations, and its provisions empowering the Organization to take action, binding on its Members, without their unanimous consent, an understanding of the Charter will be enhanced by placing its dominant features in their conceptual and historical setting.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 1945 , pp. 664 - 679
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1945

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Footnotes

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Adapted for this Journal from a paper read at Cornell University on August 1, 1945. The full text will be published late in 1945 by the Cornell University Press in & symposium entitled The United States in the Postwar World.

References

1 With the exception of a limited right of self-defence under Art. 51, and the right to take certain enforcement measures against enemy states of the Second World War under Arts. 53 and 107.

2 See, however, Secretary of State Stettinius’ Report to the President on the … San Francisco Conference, June 26, 1945; United States Department of State Conference Series, No. 71, pp. 47-49.

3 Since the above was written, the Tripartite Conference of Berlin has announced an agreement for the establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers representing the five principal Powers. See Department of State Bulletin, Vol. XIII, No. 319 (August 5, 1945), p. 153.