TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Political Role of The United Nations: Some British Views
AU  - Goodwin, Geoffrey L.
PY  - 1961
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
LA  - eng
AB  - Charting the course of attitudes in Britain toward the United Nations is mainly a matter of defining small gradations within a fairly limited range, a range varying from sympathetic concern—and ritualistic commendation—at one end of the spectrum to barely dis uised indifference at the other. Among a small section of radical public opinion the Organization can still (August 1961) arouse fervent support, while the right-wing Beaverbrook press and its sympathizers lose few opportunities of pointing out its deficiencies. Nevertheless, during most of its fifteen years' existence, so far as public interest in Britain in its political activities is concerned, the limited impact the United Nations has had on most of the major issues of peace and war has discouraged "popular opinion" from waxing very enthusiastic-or bitter-about it; indeed, although a generally accepted part of international life, it has for long periods languished relatively unnoticed in a diplomatic backwater. Only at such moments of crisis as Korea, Suez, or the Congo, when the Organization has been forced into the mainstream of international politics has this rather tepid reaction been punctuated by heightened tension—and acrimony.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/s002081830001064x
DO  - 10.1017/s002081830001064x
T2  - International organization
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SN  - 1531-5088
SP  - 581-602
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1017/s002081830001064x
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -