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The United Nations
By Simon Brown
After WWII people had an immediate desire to try and prevent the needless loss of life that had just occurred over the previous six years, and twenty years prior to that. ... Not only that but an organization was required to replace the League of Nations, which had all but rendered itself powerless. In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. The Organization officially came into existence on the 24th of October 1945, when the charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The purposes of the United Nations, as set forth in the charter, include maintaining international peace and security as well as developing friendly worldwide relations between countries. Recently however, the United Nations (UN) has come under close scrutiny from the United States and Great Britain based on its excessively patient approach towards Iraq, and the UN resolutions set forth. ... If such attitudes are continued by the UN then it risks being seen as merely a
mirror image of its predecessor, the League of Nations.
The planning for a worldwide organization of nations intended to prevent future international conflicts, such as the two the world had endured in the first part of the century, had begun even before WWII ended. In the fall of 1944, officials from the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China met at a mansion in Washington DC, (France was not yet strong to commit to conflicts outside of its own territory). There they laid plans for an international organization called the United Nations.
Approximate Word count = 1351
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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