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Nations. By submitting the chendments sot forth cbove and by
San Francisco Conference, the French Government indicates clearly
sending a dolegation which will collaborate in the work of the
the importance it attached to this part of the task. But, going
beyend technical questions, however important they may be, the
Fronch Government is anxious to stress the fact that the spirit
in which the future international organization will bo estab-
lished and will function assumes in its eyes an importance even
greater.
It deems it essential that the two concepts of responsi-
bility and solidarity should henceforth assume their full sig-
nificance.
Responsibility is defined as the obligation which every
member of the organization must feel to cooperate effectively,
wherever geography has stationed it and to the full extent of
its moans, in the common defense. The new Organization should
exert care not to woaken this precccupation by spreading a
folso feeling of security and exhorting the nations to disarm
withcut taking proper precautions. On the contrary, the Organi-
zation must be able to recognizo that those United Nations which
will maku, in spite of the needs of their reconstruction, the
sacrifice, after the war, of maintoining a strong arny and of re-
maining vigilant, will be performing their international duty
woll.
As for solidarity, it is the very essence of collective
security. But it cannot manifest itself in identical forms in
all instances. There are States between which a more direct tie
is created by the nearness of the same danger. On the other hand,
there are others whose cooperation, while equally indispensable,
can make itself felt only after an interval, because of their
remoteness. The machinery adopted must be conceived with suf-
ficient flexibility to take into account these various situations.
The first-mentioned States must be in a position to conclude, as
between themselves, treaties of assistance which provide that
the danger be met with immediate ounter-measures. In the
case
of the latter, slower procedures can be envisaged. However, the
treaties of assistance must in no case be considered as consti-
tuting violations of collective security when, on the contrary,
they constitute the primory clements of that security.
In the opinion of the French Government, it can be hoped
that it will be possible, on the basis of these facts drawn from
experience and from geography, to make of collective security, no
longer meroly a great hope on the part of nations, but rather an
instrument which will effoctively avert, in the future, the danger
of aggression. The Government of the Republic is firmly convinced
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