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    "ocrText": "-3-\nUNITED NATIONS\nUS-USSR Relations in the UN During 1948. -- -President Truman, in a\nletter accompanying his report to Congress on US participation in the\nUN during 1948, said that \"if the United Nations as a security organi-\nzation has disappointed us, as Secretary Acheson notes, and if we have\nhad to take supplemental measures to meet actual or potential threats\nto our security, it is not because the United States has not put forth\nreal efforts to develop the United Nations to its full stature.\" Secre-\ntary Acheson expressed disappointment, in an accompanying letter, that\ncertain states had failed to observe their obligations under the Charter\non matters which seriously affect the maintenance of peace.\nWith reference to the Third Regular Session of the General Assembly\nat Paris, the report stated that the Assembly's work in the political\nfield \"was conditioned largely by the continuing differences between the\nSoviet Union and the other members. \" The decisions on all specific\npolitical matters were, with isolated exceptions, opposed only by the\nSoviet group, according to the report, It added that, unfortunately,\nno tendency was evidenced on the part of the Soviet group to reconcile\nits views with those of the rest of the members.\nThe Security Council's work naturally reflected the political\ninstability and division that prevailed in 1948, because--in the view\nof practically the entire non-Soviet world--the Soviet Union was engaged\nin efforts to expand its power and influence and to extend its system,\nst\nthe report declared. It pointed out that such circumstances gave rise\nto disputes and situations which engaged the attention of the Security\nCouncil and some of its subsidiary bodies almost constantly throughout\nthe year.\nIn discussing the Economic and Social Council, the report indicated\nthat political debates arising from ideological differences between the\nSoviet Union and most of the other UN members had hindered the Council's\nconstructive work, Although the Charter provides for USSR membership\nin the Trusteeship Council, the report noted, a Soviet representative\ntook his place at the Council table for the first time in April 1948,\nand the effect of Soviet participation was to disrupt the cooperative\nspirit which had characterized the sessions of the Council during its\nformative period.\n7\nSoviet National Employed by the UN. The Department of State\nannounced on May 6 that after consultation with the Justice Department\nthe Department of State had informed the USSR that Valentin A. Gubichev's\nstatus as a member of the UN Secretariat does not entitle him to\ndiplomatic immunities and that he will be brought to trial without undue\n7.\nUnited States Participation in the United Nations: Report by the\nPresident to the Congress for the Year 1948 (Department of State publica-\ntion 3437, released May 1949)."
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