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DECLASSIFIED Authority E.O. 10501 The United Nations Conference RESTRICHED on International Organization Doc. 2 (ENGLISH) G/14(e) May 1, 1945 GENERAL ARCHIVES RECORDS TRENAR 7 NATIONAL AND SERVICE" SUGGESTIONS OF THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE PROPOSALS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY AGREED ON AT THE FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE AT DUMBARTON OAKS Turkey has always been one of the most ardent supporters of the idea of collective security. It is, therefore, natu- ral that the Government of the Turkish Republic has examined with due attention and particular sympathy the plan drawn up at Dumbarton Oaks by the representatives of the United Kingdom, the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of China for the International Organization of peace, security, and the world economy. The Turkish Government congratulates itself all the more warmly for the understanding thus achieved among the four great nations, since, being firmly attached to the high ideal which has led to the creation of the League of Nations, it sees herein the consecration of the aim toward which were bent all the efforts of good-will to assure the indispen- sable evolution of this institution into a more complete and more perfect form through the inclusion in the pact of the principle of effective and preventive action, the lack of which has caused the League to lapse into passivity. It is also upon the inspiration of these factors of the past and of the painful experiences which humanity has suffered in the course of the recent years, that, with the purpose of making its modest contribution to the work of peace which requires the common effort of all peoples, the Turkish Government permits itself to submit to the Con- ference certain suggestions of a general character which, it hopes, will be taken into consideration at the time of the amending and redrafting of the final text. I In paragraph 1 of Chapter II it is specified that the Organization is based on the principle of sovereign equality of all peace-loving states. In order to make it possible for the new association of nations to realize more easily the aims of its activity, 260 -1- -

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