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APPENDIX C.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DUMBARTON OAKS PROPOSALS AND CHARTER OF THE

UNITED NATIONS.

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS.

WE, the peoples of the United Nations, determined-

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice

in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirin faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends---

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as

good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security,

and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic

and social advancement of all peoples,

have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organisation to be known as the United Nations.

Chapter I. Purposes and Principles.

ARTICLE 1.

The Purposes of the United Nations are:-

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 for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and

4. To be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the attain- ment of these common ends.

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DUMBARTON OAKS PROPOSALS.

Chapter I.-Purposes.

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The purposes of the Organisation 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 inter- national disputes which may lead to a breach of the peace;

(2) To develop friendly relations among nations and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

(3) To achieve international co-operation in the solution of international economic, social and other humanitarian problems; and

(4) To afford a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the achievement of these common ends.