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...irresolution that had paralyzed U.S. policy in the Far East fell away, the United Nations caught new spirit, too. On U.S. urging, the Assembly voted 47 to 0 to impose an embargo on war materials to Mao's China. No nation opposed it. Even India, Burma and Indonesia, who were among the eight who abstained, on the misty notion that it might spoil chances for peace, announced that they would support the embargo in practice. The five nations of the Soviet bloc refused to participate...
Eleven days after the U.S. formally proposed it, the U.N. Assembly voted a strategic embargo against Red China and North Korea. Russia's Jacob Malik and Soviet satellite spokesmen growled: "Illegal . . . shameful." India's Sir Senegal Rau fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure...
...recommended that: ¶No shipments be sent by "any state" to Red China and Korea of "arms, ammunition and implements of war, atomic energy materials, petroleum, and items useful in the production of arms." ¶Each nation determine which of its exports are of "warmaking character" and subject to embargo...
...Assembly's recommendations provided no joint enforcement machinery, could not keep the Soviet bloc from trading as it pleased. But there was no doubt that the embargo could seriously hamper Red China's war-making capability (see below). By voting for it, the U.N. had struck a telling moral blow at Communist aggression, had shown that even nations who would like to be neutral are stiffening against Communist China...
...vulnerable is Red China to the U.N. Embargo...