The United Nations: Dumbarton Oaks proposals to be the subject of the United Nations conference at San Francisco, April 25, 1945

              The United Nations 
                              Dumbarton Oaks Proposals 
                                        fora 
                         General International Organization 
                                To be the subject of 
           THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE at San Francisco, April 25, 1945 
          
          
         THERE SHOULD be established an international 
         organization under the title of The United Nations, 
         the Charter of which should contain provisions nec- 
         essary to give effect to the proposals which follow. 
          
                                Chapter I. Purposes 
          
           The purposes of the Organization should be: 
           1. To maintain international peace and security; 
         and to that end to take effective collective measures 
         for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace 
         and the suppression of acts of aggression or other 
         breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful 
         means adjustment or settlement of international dis- 
         putes which may lead to a breach of the peace; 
           2. To develop friendly relations among nations and 
         to take other appropriate measures to strengthen uni- 
         versal peace; 
           3. To achieve international cooperation in the solu- 
         tion of international economic, social and other hu- 
         manitarian problems; and 
           4. To afford a center for harmonizing the actions 
         of nations in the achievement of these common ends. 
          
                               Chapter II. Principles 
          
           In pursuit of the purposes mentioned in Chapter I 
         the Organization and its members should act in ac- 
         cordance with the following principles: 
           1. The Organization is based on the principle of 
         the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states. 
           2. All members of the Organization undertake, in 
         order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits 
         resulting from membership in the Organization, to 
         fulfill the obligations assumed by them in accordance 
         with the Charter. 
           3. All members of the Organization shall settle their 
         disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that 
         international peace and security are not endangered. 
           4. All members of the Organization shall refrain 
         in their international relations from the threat or use 
         of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes 
         of the Organization. 
           5. All members of the Organization shall give every 
         assistance to the Organization in any action under- 
         taken by it in accordance with the provisions of the 
         Charter. 
           6. All members of the Organization shall refrain 
         from giving assistance to any state against which 
         preventive or enforcement action is being undertaken 
         by the Organization. 
           The Organization should ensure that states not 
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
         members of the Organization act in accordance with 
         these principles so far as may be necessary for the 
         maintenance of international peace and security. 
          
                              Chapter III. Membership 
          
           1. Membership of the Organization should be open 
         to all peace-loving states. 
          
          
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