UN General Assembly
1947

In Article 4 of our Charter which refers to the admission of new Members, we stated that there were only three requites for admission: first, that the applicant should be a peace-loving State; secondly, that the applicant should accept the obligations stated in the Charter for Member Nations, and thirdly, that it should be capable and ready, in the judgment of our Organization, to fulfil its duties as a Member. That is why the majority of the Members of the United Nations fail to understand why peace-loving States, such as Ireland, Portugal and Transjordan, which have applied for admission as Members of our international Organization, have been rejected in spite of the fact that they fulfil, in a most conspicuous manner, all the conditions required for new Members of the United Nations, conditions which are so clearly and specifically enumerated in Article 4 of our Charter. The only explanation for this failure of our Organization is again the veto power.