Moreover, because of the experience perhaps of the old League of Nations, because of the novelty of this great concept which was hammered out after the war, there is preserved in the structure of the United Nations the old customary right of action in a Crisis in Self Defence.

In the Middle East we are committed to purposes which were defined by the Prime Minister in connection with our intervention in Jordan which he calleda Crisis of Self Defenceand said that nothing could take awayout customary traditional right, and, I would add, duty".

It is part of the pattern of conspiracy and subversion … There is preserved in the structure of the United Nations the old customary right of action in a Crisis in Self Defence.