UN General Assembly
1948

The problem of Berlin was to be submitted to the Security Council, and probably to the General Assembly at a later stage. That meant that the United Nations was going to find itself confronted with reality. Its ability to acquit itself of its task would be put to the test and the world would thus learn just how sincere certain States had been when they had signed the Charter at San Francisco. It was going to discover whether they had signed it with a sincere desire to live up to its provisions or whether they had done so solely for the purpose of paralysing the work of the Organization or utilizing it for their own ends.