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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 7. June 25, 1951
Breaches of Charter
Breaches of Charter
Other decisions had been taken by the US in open defiance of the spirit and letter of the UN Charter; they had been either later ratified or entirely overlooked by the servile majority in UN.
The Atlantic Pact, said Mr. Ferguson, contravened Articles 52-54 of the Charter which make it quite clear that all such "regional arrangements" must be under the authority of the Security Council unless they are directed against a former enemy.
"The proponents of the Atlantic Pact might object to designating it as Jungle Law. But the thinness of the veneer of civilisation covering it is revealed by the most cursory glance. It makes military might the determining factor in international relations . . . We do not bemoan these developments. We think that the Jungle principle fits the facts better than the ideally human principle of the United Nations."