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History of the United Nations Charter
The United Nations Charter is the treaty that established the United Nations.
The following series of events led to the writing of the Charter, and the UN's founding.
In June 1941, London was the home of nine exiled governments. The great British capital had already
seen twenty-two months of war and in the bomb-marked city, air-raid sirens wailed all too frequently.
Practically all Europe had fallen to the Axis and ships on the Atlantic, carrying vital supplies, sank
with grim regularity. But in London itself and among the Allied governments and peoples, faith in
ultimate victory remained unshaken. And, even more, people were looking beyond military victory to the
postwar future.
Two months after the London Declaration came the next step to a world organization, the result of a
dramatic meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
Representatives of 26 countries fighting the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, decide to support the by Signing the Declaration
of the United Nations.
Thus by 1943 all the principal Allied nations were committed to outright victory and, thereafter, to
an attempt to create a world in which “men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear
and want.” But the basis for a world organization had yet to be defined, and such a definition came at
the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union in
October 1943.
The principles of the world organization-to-be were thus laid down. But it is a long step from defining
the principles and purpose of such a body to setting up the structure. A blueprint had to be prepared,
and it had to be accepted by many nations.
Forty-five nations, including the four sponsors, were originally
invited to the San Francisco Conference: nations which had declared
war on Germany and Japan and had subscribed to the
United Nations Declaration.
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