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The Role of the United Nations in the Conduct of United States Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Daniel S. Cheever
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There have been repeated generalizations that support of the United Nations is a cornerstone of United States foreign policy. On February 22, 1950, the President, in a major address dealing with foreign policy, indicated that the United Nations was the proper forum in which to seek an international agreement for the control of atomic weapons. In so doing he reaffirmed a previous statement of policy of “unfaltering support to the United Nations and related agencies,” the first of the “four points” of his inaugural address of January 1949. The President in this fashion sought to reassure the public that he had confidence in the United Nations and that he proposed to utilize its machinery to the full in the conduct of United States foreign relations.

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World Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , April 1950 , pp. 390 - 404
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1950

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1 This resolution is supported by the United World Federalists. Other resolutions: S.R. 133, principally the Culbertson “quota force” plan; S.C.R. 57, principally the Streit “Atlantic Union” plan; S.C.R. 52, sponsored by Senators Douglas and Thomas, to permit action against an aggressor by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly with at least three of the permanent members of the Security Council concurring.

2 For further views on international economic and political relations see Haberler, Gottfried, “Economic Aspects of a European Union,” World Politics, Vol. I, No. 4 (July 1949), pp. 431–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 See New York Times, Feb. 23, 1950, p. 7, citing a Foreign Policy Association report by Warren Wilhelm on the cost of industrial expansion in backward regions in the U.S.S.R.

4 Department of State, “The Point Four Program,” Government Printing Office, 1949 p. 14.Google Scholar

5 Heindel, R. H., Kalijarvi, T. V., and Wilcox, F. O., “The North Atlantic Treaty in the United States Senate,” American Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 1949), p. 633.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 See Sharp, Walter R., “National Administration and the United Nations System,” International Commitments and National Administration, Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1949.Google Scholar

7 Foreign Affairs Report, U.S. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Foreign Affairs (A Report to the Congress, No. 6), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1949.

8 The House and Senate hearings and debate on the Atlantic Pact are illuminating in this respect.