ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the informal relationships of the South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York with Secretary-General Trygve Lie and with the UN Secretariat. I argue that, in the context of the South African-Indian dispute, India’s role was never completely uncontested nor was South Africa the only outlaw within the newly formed UN. Furthermore, I will briefly examine the ambivalent role of the Latin American group in the early years of the UN in regard to the South African-Indian question.
