How do you account for the fact that the United Nations Charter follows the format of the Russian (USSR) Constitution of 1936 rather than the format of the (Covenant of the) League of Nations? Would you feel there was any significance in the fact that the general secretary for the organization which drew up the charter was Alger Hiss? …The UN was a plan to make the USSR writ large over the entire world, and was never in any way an organization to preserve the peace.
— The Naked Communist, Chapter 8