Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today rejected charges that the United Nations employed a “double standard” by dealing severely with Israel last fall while displaying leniency in the face of Soviet oppression of Hungary.
Mr. Dulles said in an article appearing in the new issue of “Foreign Affairs” that although the United Nations has at times been paralyzed by world division, in some instances it displayed “surprising determination and virtual unanimity.” He cited the Suez and Hungarian crises.
“It is sometimes said by way of reproach that in these matters the United Nations applied a ‘double standard’–severity toward Israel, France and the United Kingdom, and leniency toward the Soviet Union, “he wrote. This charge, he said, “has no basis in fact.”
Mr. Dulles said “the Assembly resolutions directed against the use of force in Egypt and in Hungary were equally peremptory. The double standard was not in the United Nations but in the nations. There was the moral sensitivity of the Western nations, and their decent respect for the opinions of mankind. There was the immorality of Soviet Communism, and its contempt for the opinions of mankind.”
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