Word: charterers
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...Charter of the United Nations creates the mechanisms of a strong world organization, governed by five great powers in the Security Council--China, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The United States and Russia have evolved as the strongest forces in the organization. Their power is challenged by the uncommitted nations, but, essentially, these two leaders can direct the future of the U.N. by their actions alone...
...most significant structural change in the U.N. during the past 15 years has been the decline of the Security Council and the rise of the General Assembly as the policy making organ. Under the Charter, the Assembly can debate, investigate, and recommend, but cannot...
Perhaps the Security Council could be revitalized by increasing its membership. Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, believes structural changes in the 11-member body are definitely necessary, but considers their implementation impossible, since it requires changing the Charter. He claimed that the Council should include at least 17 members and proposed removing the veto power of the Big Five...
...office is really his; he has been creating it every day. Although the Secretary-General has a constitutional right under the UN Charter to send troops to the Congo, for example, a lesser man than Hammarskjold would have hesitated. And on Oct. 3, when Premier Khrushchev demanded that he resign and proposed the plan to neutralize his office, Hammarskjold characteristically refused--and won a standing ovation from the General Assembly. Equally important, Prime Minister Nehru's speech was symbolic of a growing respect the African and Asian nations entertain for the Secretary-General...
Died. Wilhelm Pieck, 84, patriarch of the German Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World...