Word: charterers
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Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement. -United Nations Charter, Article...
Since it joined the U.N., South Africa has persistently invoked this Charter article to resist U.N. inquiries into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
...basis of political expediency and sentiment, cannot, in my delegation's opinion, emasculate the conditions under which member ship was originally accepted." There were many among his hearers who, while deeply disliking South Africa's racial policy, privately admitted that South Africa had the U.N. Charter on its side...
...minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving EGA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security. * In 1941 Harriman was at the Atlantic Charter meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt, and at their later conference in Washington; in 1942 he was with Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, with Churchill and Stalin in Moscow; in 1943 he was with Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca, in Washington and in Quebec; with Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov...
Basically, reviewing a piece of paper is not going to change world power politics. The Charter's text has meaning only within a context--the context of world conditions. By trying to postpone Charter review for three years, instead of one, the U.S. is merely putting off a problem that may well become more acute as each year passes...