World Peace Through World Law
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World Peace Through World Law, first published in 1958, was a book by Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn was born in Lemberg, in what was then Austria-Hungary, later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at John Casimir University in Lwow in 1939, escaping to the United States two weeks before the Nazi invasion of Poland...

 and Grenville Clark
Grenville Clark
Grenville Clark was the writer of the book World Peace Through World Law...

 proposing a Revised United Nations Charter
United Nations Charter
The Charter of the United Nations is the foundational treaty of the international organization called the United Nations. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries...

http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ27-Clark-SohnPlan.html#2. Among other suggestions, they proposed:
  • Allocating votes in the UN General Assembly based on member nations' populations;
  • Replacing the UN Security Council with an Executive Council with China, India, USSR, and the US as permanent members, and no veto power; and
  • Making a World Police Force the only military force permitted in the world.

Literary reference

In one passage of Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...

's 1959 detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...

 novel "Champagne for One
Champagne for One
Champagne for One is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1958.The back matter of the 1995 Bantam edition of this book includes an exchange of correspondence between Stout and his editor at Viking Press, Marshall Best...

", the character Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe's...

 is mentioned as sitting behind his desk reading "World Peace Through World Law". Wolfe is greatly impressed with the book, to the point of forgetting the current mystery he is involved in solving, and says to his colleague Archie Goodwin
Archie Goodwin (fictional detective)
Archie Goodwin is a fictional character and detective in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries. The witty voice of all the stories, he recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975 . He lives in Nero Wolfe's brownstone in New York City.Archie was born on October 23 in Chillicothe, Ohio,...

that he must read it, too (ch.VII).
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