Yet, it is predictable that few organizations would suffer more than America's naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accessionto that treaty.
Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accessionto India.
The truth is that the U.N. and its admirers are so keen on U.S. accessionto the Law of the Sea Treaty precisely because it will transform that so-called "constitution of the seas" into an actual charter for a new supranational order.