Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, President Kennedy mobilized the skills of U.S. diplomacy to keep the Soviet Union from imposing on the U.N. its concept of a three-man secretariat-an unworkable form of executive that would forever cripple the organization. Survival of the U.N. as a world forum and as a useful instrument for keeping the peace was well worth struggling for. But there are other goals, carrying far higher priority. They could be defined simply...
When Dag Hammarskjold first accepted the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations, he said: "Fate is what we make it." The fate which he suffered last week resulted ironically and tragically from his effort to fulfill the role he outlined in 1953: to be "an instrument, a catalyst, an inspirer," to facilitate cooperation among nations...
...have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard the U.N. as "a static conference machinery for resolving conflicts of interest;" others conceive of it as "a dynamic instrument of governments" which not only seeks reconciliation, but attempts to develop "forms of executive action" to forestall conflicts...
...face reality: we are living in an atomic age, and we have created an instrument that can destroy us all, the innocent along with the guilty. Every reputable scientist knows, and many have certainly stated, that a nuclear war would wipe out millions of human lives and would destroy our civilization...
Congress approve a pending revision of the is-year-old Fulbright Act that would unify and expand all U.S. exchange programs into what Senator Fulbright calls "a positive instrument of foreign policy...