5 NOVEMBER 1948, Page 5

Someone who holds the agreeable opinion that what The Spectator

says today all sensible people will be saying in two or three years' time recalls that in our issue of March i6th, 5945, a letter pointing to the dangers of the veto provision in the United Nations Charter (which was then being drafted) evoked the editorial footnote . " There is nothing to prevent the other Permanent Members, or any other States, from uniting on their own account against an aggressor." That truth is now being generally realised, and action in accordance with it need not be despaired of.