ABSTRACT

The United Nations was established “to maintain international peace and security….” It was also “to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion….” Yet the nations of the world who charged the UN with these great missions never permitted it to acquire the resources it needed to fulfill them.