By Phillips Bradley
Director of Research, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations and Professor, Queens College (NY)
(Published January 1946)

Why Do We Need A World Organization?

• Another chance and another try
• Charter of the United Nations

What Lay Behind the San Francisco Conference?

What Were the Problems Faced at San Francisco?

• Membership
• The big nations and the small ones
• The need for speed
• Regionalism
• Dependent areas
• Economic and social issues
• Amendments

What Machinery Was Set Up At San Francisco?

• The six chief organs
• How can a state become a member?
• Can a member resign or be expelled?
• May a state have more than one vote?

What Are the Functions of the General Assembly?

• Can the General Assembly act on a dispute?
• Can the Assembly pass international legislation?

What Is the Economic and Social Council?

• What will the Economic and Social Council do?
• Helping hands
• Others, old and new
• How do these agencies help maintain peace?

What Is the Trusteeship System for Dependent Areas?

• What will the Trusteeship Council do?
• What are the Charter's colonial principles?
• Are these principles workable?

Do We Need an International Civil Service?

How Does the Charter Promote the Rule of Law?

• How will the new World Court operate?
• What law will the Court apply?
• Do we need a code o f world law?
• Does the Charter write a code o f law?
• Is the legal obligation o f the Charter effective?

What Are the Charter Provisions for Preventing War?

• How is the Security Council organized?
• What are the Security Council's functions?
• What machinery is there for peaceful settlement?
• How will this machinery work?
• What if war threatens?
• How will economic sanctions be applied?
• Military sanctions-what are they?
• How will military sanctions be applied?

How Do Regional Systems Fit into the Charter?

How Will the Security Council Vote?

• Is the veto a necessary part o f the charter?
• Does the veto power make the Charter ineffective?
• Will mobilized world opinion be effective?

What Is America's Stake in the Charter?

• What about our influence in world affairs?
• Is the Charter perfect?
• Can it be improved?