The UN Debates in 1952

Abstract

The year throughout which the UN discussed the North African questions was 1952 and it was different from the other years that the book treats, in the sense that Tunisian and Moroccan affairs received a great deal of visible influence from international relations and the intra-Western Alliance politics. The UN debates had two rounds, the first at the Security Council and the second at the General Assembly. In face of the Arabs’ challenge, coupled by political support from the Soviet Camp, to France’s jurisdiction on the two countries, the Western powers struggled to secure French influence while the United States showed inclinations to see the UN take up the questions.