Book Reviews : Spain and Defense of the West; Ally and Liability. By ARTHUR P. WHITAKER. (New York: Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper & Brothers, 1961. Pp. xviii, 408. $6.00.)

• Published date: 01 December 1961
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296101400445
• Author: George A. Hopper
• Date: 01 December 1961
• Subject Matter: Articles

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In describing the evolution of the United Nations as it bears on and is
affected by the international personality of the organization, the author studies
in detail &dquo;The Power of the United Nations to Conclude Treaties,&dquo; &dquo;Korea and
the Restoration of International Peace and Security,&dquo; &dquo;U.N.E.F. and the Main-
tenance of International Peace and Security,&dquo; &dquo;The Privileges and Immunities
of the United Nations,&dquo; and &dquo;The Capacity of the United Nations to Espouse
International Claims.&dquo;
As Philipp C. Jessup points out in the foreword to Dr. Weissberg’s mono-
graph, it &dquo;will remain a work of reference which others exploring aspects of the
subject can not afford to ignore and which they need not re-examine.&dquo; The record
of the United Nations prior to the Organization’s involvement in the Republic of
the Congo has been diligently combed.
The author describes how the United Nations’ international legal personality
has evolved, without suggesting new lines of evolution. To this there is one ex-
ception, however. He argues that for purposes of Article 34 ( 1 ) of the Statute of
the International Court of Justice -
which recognizes only states as parties in
contentious proceedings before the Court -
the United Nations and other our-
ganizations &dquo;similarly situated&dquo; be regarded as &dquo;States.&dquo; In spite of the argu-
ments advanced by the author, and no matter how politically appealing they
may be, in the opinion of this reviewer the hard fact remains that an organiza-
tion like the United Nations, which acknowledges the sovereign equality of its
members, can hardly be termed a &dquo;State,&dquo; no matter what conventual meaning is
ascribed to that term.
GEORGE V. WOLFE
The College of Idaho
Spain and Defense of the West; Ally and Liability. By ARTHUR P. WHITAKER.
(New York: Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper &
Brothers, 1961. Pp. xviii, 408. $6.00.)
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