Book Review: Le Droit de Veto Dans L'ONU
| Published date | 01 June 1955 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205501000213 |
| Author | L. M. Gouin |
| Date | 01 June 1955 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
character
makes
this
formal
status
of
little
importance,
and
it
stands
by
itself
as
a
handy
reference
work
on
the Paris treaties
with
Italy
and
the
satellites.
It
is
welcome
first
of
all
as making
easily
available
the
texts
of
the
treaties
themselves;
for
although
these
texts
have
of
course
been
issued
by
the
various
govern-
ments,
they
are
offered
here
in
a
particularly
convenient
form.
The
second
feature
is
the
introductory
discussion of
the treaties
and
the
brief
background
outlining
the
steps
in
the
negotiation
of
the
principal
clauses.
This
is
not
intended
to
be
a
comprehen-
sive
historical
treatment
of
the
negotiations
as
a
whole,
but
rather
an indication of
how
particular
decisions
were
reached
in
specific
cases.
They
are
consequently
purely
factual
in
treat-
ment, with
no
effort
at
interpretation
and
little
discussion
of
the
broader
issues.
Within
this
deliberately
restricted
scope
they
offer
the
reader
a succinct
summary
of
the
issues
involved
and
the
stages
that
led
to
the
final
provisions.
It
is
a
book
for
students
of
the
period
rather
than
for
the
general
reading
public,
and
as
such
it
is
likely
to
achieve
a
place
as
one
of
the standard
works
on
the
post-war settlement.
Toronto
EDGAR
MCINNIS
LE
DROIT
DE
VETO
DANs
L'ONU.
By
Georges
Day.
1952.
(Paris:
Editions
A. Pedone.
241pp.)
The
author
was
specially
qualified
to
undertake
this
very
in-
teresting
study,
because he
was
formerly
a
member of
the
Secretariat
of
the
U.N. The
merits
of
his
book
are
very
well
appreciated
in
the
excellent
preface,
written
by
no
less
a
jurist
than
M.
Alexandre
Parodi,
Ambassador
for
France,
General
Secretary
of
the
Department
of
Foreign
Affairs,
who
was
for
some
time
France's
permanent
representative
on
the
Security
Council.
With
M.
Parodi,
every
reader
will
admit
that
M.
Day
has
studied
the
Veto,
"that
rather
mysterious
monster,"
in
a
purely
objective
way,
with
a
strict
analysis and a
perfect
fairness
of
judgment,
to
arrive
at
conclusions
of
great
clearness
and
certainty.
This
book
should
be
recommended
to
all
students
of
international
affairs,
because
no
other
provision
of
the
San
Francisco
Charter has
occupied
a
place
as
essential
as
the
rule of
unanimity
(generally
called
the
Veto)
in
the
development
of
the
U.N.
From
the
beginning
of
the
Nineteenth Century,
it
must
be
recognized
that
the
unanimous consent
of
States
has
been
con-
sidered, in
matters
of
treaties,
as
an
attribute
of
sovereignty.
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