Essay: THE U.N.: PROSPECTS BEYOND PARALYSIS

It may take a year or two, or maybe even three-o, But some day all the world will be a happy family-o As we make the United Nations a reality-o . . .

"THIS pseudo folk song of 1945 was typical of the euphoria A that greeted the founding of the United Nations two decades ago. There were skeptics, of course, but they were shouted down by the kind of evangelism that caused the New York Post to describe the founding convention in San Francisco as "the most important human gathering since the Last...

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