John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis

Glossary

• police action military action undertaken without a formal declaration of war
• prejudice denial of legal rights
• Secretary General legislative head of the United Nations General Assembly, chosen through a process of election by that body
• Security Council the UN Security Council, consisting of five permanent members (Russia, China, France, Britain, and the United States), all of which have veto power, and ten elected members
• two of whom Britain and France but not Israel (the third nation mentioned) because that nation was only eight years old at the time
• Uniting for Peace resolution United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377, adopted November 3, 1950, and providing that when the Security Council fails to act on an issue, owing to disagreement between two or more of its members, that issue would be placed before the General Assembly