ABSTRACT
The West suffers from a bad conscience; it has not yet found its attitude towards the reversal of values that confronts it in Asia. It is true that France could block such action by the use of its veto. In other countries the Council exerted or tried to exert a certain influence in domestic or quasi-domestic quarrels, e.g. Greece and Kashmir. When the realities confronted the Western nations after the Japanese lid had been taken off the seething countries of Southeast Asia, this bad conscience troubled Western minds, particularly those of the governments and parties of the left, which had not been in power during the imperialist years. It was acknowledged when this year (1949), at last, they were recognized as the third party in the Indonesian dispute, with full representation at the Round Table Conference in The Hague.
