''World Peace Through World Law'' was a book by Louis B. Sohn and

Grenville Clark Grenville Clark (November 5, 1882 – January 13, 1967) was a 20th-century American Wall Street lawyer, co-founder of Root Clark & Bird (later Dewey Ballantine, then Dewey & LeBoeuf), member of the Harvard Corporation, co-author of the book '' Wo ...

in 1958 that proposed a Revised United Nations Charter

Some of their suggestions included the following: *Allocating votes in the

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based on the populations of member nations; *Replacing the

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with an Executive Council with China, India, USSR, and the U.S. as permanent members, and no veto power; and *Making a World Police Force that would become the only military force permitted in the world.

Cultural references

In one passage of

Rex Stout Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and ...

's 1959 detective novel ''

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 ...

'', the character

Nero Wolfe Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery (fiction), mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West ...

is described 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 suggests to his colleague Archie Goodwin that he must read it too (ch. VII).

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