The Uses of the United Nations.

The article examines the role of the United Nations' general processes and also explores the areas of the activities of the organization. The general process of the General Assembly is based on two assumptions and this process is basically similar to that of almost any other UN political organ. The United Process is most conducive to parliamentary debate and public appeal. The resolutions are hardly ever the crucial points of the UN process. The laying down of propagandas, whatever the outcome of voting on resolutions may be, has become increasingly a purpose of resort to the General Assembly and, perhaps prospectively, the Security Council. It is perhaps not unusual to concede that the United Nations process may have its own self-contained fascination and possibly even its specific, if mainly incidental, rewards. As the author concluded, the uses of the United Nations are to strive conscientiously to adopt resolutions having, usually, no direct consequence; to achieve individual, mostly incidental purposes in this process; and thereby also to affect, over a long period of incessant concern, the actual outcome of some of the disputes considered.