No subject within the discipline of Public International Law is more
topical at the present time than that of intervention. The war in Viet-Nam
and the American action in the Dominican Republic have, once again, brought
this most controversial subject to the fore. These are, however, examples
of unilateral intervention and it is not the purpose of this study to
elaborate the principles of law, if any, which apply to them. The present
purpose is to study certain aspects of the law of intervention under the
Charter of the United Nations, itself a topic which engenders a lot of
feeling and which has been the subject of controversy ever since the inception of the Organization.The present study is timely, the United Nations itself at last having
turned its thoughts to the study of this question. It is hoped that the
following study may shed some light on the practice which has ensued in the
organs of the United Nations and the trends which have developed therein in
this regard
