Policing by United Nations

Archive Report

New Opportunities for U. N. Peace Force

Dispatch of an international armed force to the Middle East, to patrol the danger zones between Israel and the Suez Canal, opened a new chapter for the United Nations. The action in 1950 to repel Communist aggression in Korea was carried out in the name of the world organization, but the United States played so dominant a part in that operation that the participation of other nations, with the exception of the Republic of Korea itself, was almost lost to view. The U.N. Emergency Force in the Middle East, composed of small contingents from small countries1 and functioning under direct United Nations control, has a more truly international character.

The relative ease and speed which marked creation and organization ...

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