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On december 14, 1974, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus a draft resolution submitted by its Sixth (legal) Committee known as the Definition of Aggression. Adoption of this definition culminated years of effort, interspersed with numerous wars, by the international community. Here is not the place to enter into an elaborate discussion either of its history or contents. It will suffice to note that its antecedents can be traced back to the 1815 Triple Alliance, the 1907 Hague Conventions, the League of Nations, and the 1945 Inter-American Act of Chapultapec. From 1952 to 1974, however, at least four United Nations special committees grappled with the task of this definition, made more crucial by the growing diversity of techniques of aggression and the restraintson responding to aggression imposed by Article 51 of the Charter.