Book Reviews : The Secretariat of the United Nations. United Nations Study No. 11. By SIDNEY D. BAILEY. (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1962. Pp. 113. $3.50.)

• Author: George V. Wolfe
• Published date: 01 March 1964
• Date: 01 March 1964
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591296401700113
• Subject Matter: Articles

BOOK REVIEWS
The Secretariat of the United Nations. United Nations Study No. 11. By SIDNEY D.
BAILEY. (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1962. Pp.
113. $3.50.)
The book under review, the second of Sidney Bailey’s studies on a principal
organ of the United Nations to be published in the Carnegie Endowment’s United
Nations series (Bailey’s earlier study of 1960 had as its topic the General Assembly)
deals with the Secretariat in the days of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and
Acting Secretary-General U Thant. In scope this study does not compare with the
comprehensive study by Stephen M. Schwebel on the ofhce of the Secretary-General
and the exercise of its powers by Trygve Lie, which appeared in 1952 under the title,
The Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Despite the promise of a wider range held out to the reader in the introductory
chapter, Bailey actually discusses but two major aspects of the Secretariat. These
are: (1) the problems connected with establishing an international civil service pos-
sessing international loyalty and recruited on the grounds of competence and effi-
ciency, yet with due regard to as wide a geographical basis as possible; and (2) the
evolution of the office of the Secretary-General.
Bailey holds that national loyalty and loyalty to the United Nations do not
exclude each other, but that in order to establish a secretarial staff loyal to the UN
the number of the non-career employees of the organization must never exceed a
certain set percentage. As to the evolution of the office of the Secretary-General,
Bailey rightly points out &dquo;two...