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Charlone

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS CHARLONE

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1952-09-24
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1957-09-24
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  1. “In our opinion, which I should like to express with some emphasis, the great achievement of the United Nations has been to overcome its organic defects. Evidence of this is the resolution [377(V)] entitled “Uniting for peace,” of which Uruguay was a co-sponsor at the 1950 session of the Assembly and which is in itself the most convincing proof that the United Nations has succeeded in abolishing the privilege of immunity which, in practice, is conferred by the veto. At this point it cannot be argued here, as it was on 29 October 1946, in the second part of the General Assembly’s first session, that the principle of the veto is the corner-stone of the United Nations and that its removal would cause the whole structure to collapse.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  2. “The annual debates of the Assembly reveal a continuous and tenacious effort to inspire the life of the United Nations ever more fully with the ideal of democracy and the spirit of law. In this task we are supported by those spiritual reserves of humanity, respect for law and international morality. These are most precious reserves, which in the last war upheld all over the world, even in the darkest hours, humanity’s faith in the final triumph of the democracies. The support of these moral forces here in this Assembly has enabled the United Nations to overcome its structural defects, such as the veto, by invoking the concurrent jurisdiction of the Assembly when the Security Council, for the reasons and in the circumstances known to all, failed in its essential task as the guardian of peace. 87.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  3. “The guiding principle at San Francisco was the idea that the United Nations should come into being before peace was finally negotiated, because there was a hope that the great Powers would agree on foundations for that peace in line with the purposes and principles of the Charter, That hope has not as yet been borne out by experience, but the Organization cannot be denied the right to weigh and judge the conduct of the great Powers in this matter, as we are about to do once more in the concrete case of Austria. 86. It is here, in the Assembly, that the battle is waged to ensure that the principles of the Charter shall gradually permeate the organs which express the common will of the United Nations, and also the conduct of the great Powers, whose acts and decisions are of such vital importance to peace.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  4. “The League of Nations, which came into being at the same time as the peace treaties which put an end to the First World War, began under apparently happier auspices; but it failed to safeguard peace and collective security because it lacked the decision and strength to punish aggression and the manifestations of international delinquency when they claimed their first victim.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  5. “These, we firmly believe, can be achieved by the efforts of the peoples and their governments if, while we cultivate these noble sentiments, the United Nations uproots, wherever they may appear, all seeds of aggressive ideologies, lust for power and the spirit of conquest, the tragic legacy of that totalitarianism so recently defeated on the field of battle. 85. It seems obvious that many of the present tensions and conflicts have arisen from the delay in signing the peace treaties and from the manner in which those treaties which have been signed were drafted. It was always a matter of dispute whether the United Nations should begin its new chapter in world history before or after the peace treaties had established the concrete foundation of order in the relations among States.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  6. “For the same reason, the United Nations must be allowed sufficient time to attempt its great mission when it is called upon to solve problems rooted deep in history, impossible of solution in the past owing to the absence of that spirit of tolerance, understanding, confidence and faith in the advantages of co-operation upon which the philosophy of the United Nations Charter is based. 84. The destiny of man cannot be raised tip out of chaos and violence and brought to order and happiness without a necessary period of transition — -the stage through which we are now passing — when the work of the United Nations must be judged rather by what it succeeds in avoiding than by what it is able to achieve. Creative action requires an atmosphere of tolerance, of peaceful relations, and of co-operation.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  7. “When the actions of the United Nations are evaluated and judged, let it not be forgotten that the Organization came into the world in the most dramatic circumstances, after an orgy of violence without precedent in history, in which the freedoms of the peoples had been trampled underfoot, their sources of production destroyed, the wealth accumulated by creative labour submitted to systematic pillage, and the dignity of the human person insulted and mocked by the worst forms of outrage and humiliation.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  8. “It is precisely because we belong to an unfortunate generation which twice in twenty-five years has witnessed the outbreak of a major war, that we see in the United Nations the only hope for peace and co-operation. That is particularly true in the present phase of world history, when the earth is growing Smaller through scientific progress and the genius of man is discovering new sources of power which, according to whether the great Powers which possess its secret succeed or fail in achieving harmony, may raise the human race to the pinnacle of happiness or hurl it into the tragic abyss of destruction and death. 83.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)

  9. “As I take the floor here, towards the close of the first stage in the general debate which the peoples of the Member States, through their delegations, initiate each year in the General Assembly, I desire once again to reaffirm the faith and hope of Uruguay in the United Nations. Both within and without the United Nations there are tensions and conflicts as strong as those of previous years, and new problems of undeniable gravity have arisen, such as the upsurge of nationalism and claims by the under-developed countries for greater equality of rights, freedoms and economic opportunities. Nevertheless, my delegation agrees with the Secretary-General that the United Nations, today more than ever, offers to all peoples the only road to the conquest of peace and the protection of civilization. 82.”

    1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)