The United Nations at 40 - Gene H Hogberg - July-August 1985

Gene H Hogberg

The "last hope" of mankind, it has been called. But after four decades the United Nations, like the world it represents, totters on the brink of oblivion. It was in San Francisco, June 26, 1945-a truly historic place and time that the signing of the Charter of the United Nations occurred. Most of the victorious powers of World War II had gathered in the California city to draft a program for the postwar world. The Charter was the fruit of the labors of representatives of more than four dozen nations. Later that year, on October 24, 1945, the United Nations officially was born with 51 member states. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library