UN General Assembly
1947

However, the existence of the veto power, or rather its immoderate use, is only one of the factors which contributed to the difficulties in the Security Council Even if the Charter of the United Nations were so amended as to modify or abolish the veto powers there would still remain the basic threat to the Organization, namely, the tendency of the world to split into blocks of nations who consider their differences to be irreconcilable. It cannot be denied that the recent trend has been for the world to split into opposing camps instead of growing into a united and integrated community, the “one world” envisaged and fervently hoped for by the authors of the Charter at San Francisco, If that trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the United Nations will inevitably become a mere forum of public debate. The United Nations can be an effective organization for maintaining peace only if its Members are willing and ready to subordinate the interests of individual nations to the nobler and greater interests of humanity.