• The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien
  
  

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1. governments
2. comfortable
3. certainty
4. survive
5. proven
6. safely

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. by : Conor Cruise O'Brien

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