No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Preparation for Review of the Charter of the United Nations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2017
Abstract
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
- Type
- Editorial Comment
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © American Society of International Law 1955
References
1 See the editorial by Potter, P. B., in this Journal , Vol. 48 (1954), p. 275.Google Scholar
2 Yuen-li Liang, “Preparatory Work for a Possible Revision of the United Nations Charter,” ibid., pp. 83–97.
3 It should be noted that a repertory of Security Council practice was ordered in 1951, and this has now been issued as Doc. ST/PSCA/1 (Sales No. 1954. VII. 1). Apparently, another such study must be made under the resolution of the Eighth Assembly.
4 For example, the so-called Thomas-Douglas resolution, S. Con. Res. 52, 81st Cong., 1st Sess.
5 This majority can only recommend, of course; and its present composition and course of action lead to the reflection that, in the present voting arrangement in the Assembly, no greater power than that of recommendation would be granted to the Assembly as part of Charter revision.
6 This, of course, brings into prominence, among needed improvements, the procedure by which new international law can be made. Though this raises the whole question of peaceful change, little attention has been paid to the question.
7 U. N. General Assembly, 8th Sess., Official Records, Supp. No. 16 (A/2505), p. 22.
8 U.N. General Assembly, 8th Sess., Official Records, Sixth Committee, p. 67 (Vallat).
You have
Access