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Article: UN Chronicle.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 1, 2003
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Few phrases have seen as much citation as the resolve in the United Nations Charter to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", and the Organization, from its inception, has legitimately been seen as a needed securer of the peace, whether through dialogue, diplomacy, sanctions or enforcement.
It is instructive to recall how, on 26 June 1775, exactly 170 years before the Charter was adopted, a statesman had written: "When we assumed the soldier we did not lay aside the citizen." George Washington had been a student at Virginia's College of William and Mary, where Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently observed (page 4) that it is "by our success or ...