Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Dumbarton Oaks proposals one big power, even if the aggressor, can veto the operation of the security system created in the Act of Chapultepec, the Franco-Russian alliance, or any other such arrangement. In our opinion, the Security Council should have only advisory power in this, regard...
...solution fail, the Council can rule that a threat to peace has arisen and "take any measures necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security. . . ." It may order any form of action, whether political, economic, military, or all three. All members of the organization must act against the aggressor as the Security Council may determine, even if they have objected in the early stages...
This might mean that Britain, as a member of the World Security Council, could prevent intra-American action against its old commercial friend, Argentina. Or that the Soviet Union, the object of much concern at Mexico City, could check an intra-American move against an American aggressor...
...week's hottest resolution. Backed in principle by the U.S., it would bind all the signers to defend the boundaries and political independence of any American republic attacked from any quarter, within or without the Western Hemisphere. Tacit object: to create a combination in case Argentina should turn aggressor against Chile...
Under the compromise, the Security Council's Big Five (the Big Three plus France and China) must agree unanimously before the world organization can take economic or military action against an aggressor. But any seven (nominally, two-thirds) of the Council's eleven members can cite an aggressor nation, bring its sins to world attention...