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Protect the United Nations from its Friends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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People and organizations that strongly support the United Nations have, in recent weeks and months offered proposals and suggestions which cause concern. It has been suggested, for example, that the United Nations should involve itself in the Vietnam controversy with a peace-keeping force, that United States forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible and be replaced by a United Nations force. Since the unilateral declaration of independence by Rhodesia, there have been suggestions in America and abroad that the United Nations should take action in that controversy. Suggestions of this sort bring to mind the old saw, “Oh, Lord, protect me from my friends, I can take care of my enemies myself.”

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1966

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