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Many of the neutrals are small, under-developed countries that carry little weight outside the General Assembly. For these states the United Nations is the only route to world recognition. They are proud of their membership in the U.N. and generally act "with co-operative good spirit," Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, declared. John N. Plank '45, instructor in Government, echoed this sentiment, commenting that "for nations with so little world responsibility outside the U.N., many of the new small countries have followed the precedents of India and Ceylon, and shown extremely good judgment in their conduct...
Both Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, and Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, criticized the United States for bombarding the U.N. with problems. According to Hoffmann, whenever the U.S. policymakers are between satisfying their NATO allies and placating the neutrals, they the problem to the U.N. Although this action has succeeded thus far in the situation, Hoffmann considers it a dangerous policy for the U.S. might be numbered and outmaneuvered in the General Assembly...
...Sohn believes that U.S. policy has created an air of "public disappointment" regarding the United Nations. "We should send medium and small problems to the and create the habit of acceptance," he proposed, "or the world will lose faith the organization...
Although other nations have failed to use the facilities of the U.N., Sohn labeled United States the "most guilty of all." the Cuban situatio, he explained, "we referred to go to the Organization of American States instead of the U.N., Cuba has more friends, and would have been able to speak her piece." In disarmament controversy, "we inted on trying the Ten-Nation Disarmanent Conference although the Soviets would have preferred working under...
...reporting my remarks to the Committee to Study Disarmament, your reporter...did not make clear that most of my comments were addressed to Professor Sohn's argument that efforts to achieve partial disarmament steps having proved futile, world government was the only alternative to war. I said that if our only alternatives were war or world government we were likely to have a war before we would have world government. On the other hand, I urged the most careful and prayerful consideration of any partial disarmament measures that might prove feasible and suggested a few tentative ones. Measures to avert...