South Africa and the United Nations

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Title:	South Africa and the United Nations
Author:	Egeland, L.
Year:	1957
Periodical:	Optima
Period:	June
Pages:	55-66
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	foreign policy UN
Abstract:	South Africa's dramatic withdrawal from active participation in the work of the U.N. in protest against the General Assembly's decision - for the 11th year in succession - to intervene in matters of essentially domestic jurisdiction by debating the treatment of South African Indians in Natal and the Union's racial policies, invites an assessment of the international situation in which the Union's withdrawal has taken place, as well as of the U.N. as it has developed since 1945; and it invites too, a consideration of South African policy in relation both to the U.N. and to the Middle East, in the light particularly of South Africa's treatment at the hands of the U.N. and of the lessons to be learnt from the Suez crisis.