33. Editorial Note
Secretary of State Dulles was in New York September 14–19 to attend the opening of the 13th regular session of the U.N. General Assembly. On September 18 he addressed the General Assembly during the general debate. He deplored the use of the veto in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, noting: “In consequence, there is no uniformity in the acceptance and application of our Charter and our processes. There are two different standards of conduct. The United States believes that this double standard is incompatible with the basic purposes of our Organization and that it poses a challenge which we shall have to meet.”
He continued: “A related concern is the apparent reluctance of some nations to support those basic principles of the Charter which outlaw aggression, direct or indirect.” The Charter and the implementing resolutions clearly represented the “will of the world community, which this Organization was prepared vigorously to support”, and he pledged the United States, as one of the “great Powers,” to be ready to “dedicate that power to world order.”
[Page 62]Secretary Dulles concluded by stating: “May we not hope that, if only the minds and efforts of Governments were to be concentrated more fully upon the welfare of their own peoples and upon creative tasks of universal import, the issues that divide the world may fade away and the ‘cold war’ become a thing of the past.”
For full text of Secretary Dulles’ address, see U.N.doc.APV.479.