https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-24-2026
"On April 25, 1945, delegates from fifty nations met in San Francisco to
establish a permanent forum for international cooperation: the United Nations.
Even before the U.S. entered World War II, U.S. president Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill and their advisors laid
out principles for an international system that could prevent future world
wars. In the 1941
Atlantic Charter, they declared that countries should not
invade each other and therefore the world should work toward disarmament, and
that international cooperation and trade thanks to freedom of the seas would
help to knit the world together with rising prosperity and human rights.
Between 1942 and 1945, forty-seven nations signed the
Declaration by United
Nations, a treaty formalizing the alliance that stood against the fascist Axis
powers. The treaty declared that signatories would not sign separate peace
agreements with Germany, Italy, or Japan and would work together to create a
world based on the 1941
Atlantic Charter.
In October 1943 the governments of the U.S., the United Kingdom, the Soviet
Union, and China declared that they would continue to cooperate with each other
after the war ended, and that they recognized the need to establish an
international organization, “based on the principle of the sovereign equality
of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large
and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
To create that organization, representatives from those four nations met at the
Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C., in late summer and fall 1944. They
hammered out the
Dumbarton Oaks Proposals for an international organization
called the United Nations. Its purpose would be to maintain international peace
and security by acting collectively to stop aggression and settle international
disputes, to strengthen ties between nations, and to work together to solve
problems.
The organization was based on “the principle of the sovereign equality of all
peace-loving states,” and membership in it would be open to all such states."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
