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The Secretary General on the Rôle of the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1958

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References

1 Simón Planas-Suárez, La Política Europea y la Sociedad de las Naciones. Una Advertencia a la América (Barcelona, 1935, 534 pp.).

2 Introduction to Annual Report on the Work of the United Nations (reprinted in the New York Times, Sept. 5, 1957, pp. 10-11).

3 Kunz, Josef L., ‘’ The Legal Position of the Secretary General of the United Nations,” 40 A.J.I.L. 786-792 (1946).Google Scholar

4 Jackson, Elmore, “The Developing Rôle of the Secretary General,” 11 International Organization 431-457 (1957).Google Scholar

5 A very similar appraisal of the rôle of the TT.N. has recently been given by Lester B. Pearson, in International Relations, Vol. I, No. 8 (London, October, 1957), pp. 329-338.

6 See W. Schiffer, The Legal Community of Mankind (New York, 1954).

7 This correct construction was made from the beginning by Professor A. Verdross.

8 See article by Louis B. Sohn, above, p. 229. Somewhat different was the “U.N. Guard,” proposed by Secretary General Trygve Lie in 1949, as a small police force to protect U.N. missions in the field in troubled areas.