Trouble Spots in Europe

Abstract

Increasingly the cold war, now gathering in intensity, dictated the tone of debate in the UN on many issues, wherever they arose. But the real cockpit of the cold war was inevitably the area where the two great ideological blocs immediately adjoined each other: that is, in Europe. Many of the basic issues in that region — the future of Germany, the type of government to be established in Poland, the peace treaties with the East European states, and so on — never came up in the UN at all. This was partly because it had always been accepted that matters resulting directly from the war were to be discussed among the victorious powers and not within the organisation; and it was partly because there was, anyway, little hope of resolving them within the propaganda-laden, declamatory environment of the UN at this time. But there were a number of peripheral questions, resulting directly or indirectly from the cold war, which were discussed in the organisation during its early years.KeywordsSecurity CouncilForeign MinisterChurch LeaderPeace TreatyFundamental FreedomThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.