The UN at War: FDR'S Global UN Day 1942: Lessons for a stronger UN today
2010年6月30日

Dr Dan Plesch

Date: 30 June 2010Time: 6:30 PM

Finishes: 30 June 2010Time: 8:30 PM

Venue: House of LordsRoom: 4A

Type of Event: Lecture

Respondents

Professor Chris Bellamy, Cranfield University

Paul Lay, Editor, History Today

Lord Judd of Portsea

The assumption that the United Nations was established at the end of the World War II is wrong. Its formal birth was the adoption in Washington D.C. on 1 January, 1942 of the Declaration by United Nations. From that day, twenty-six nations committed themselves to victory in war and cooperation in the ensuing peace. Recent research has uncovered thousands of wartime references to the UN , from official surrender documents to Dimitri Shostakovich's United Nations March used in the 1943 Gene Kelly movie When Thousands Cheer. As the war was being fought, plans for a new world were being hammered out, transforming the United Nations from a war-fighting machine to a platform for peace.

Dr Dan Plesch is Academic Director of the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He is the leading authority on the UN's earliest years. His article 'The Free World's Great Parade' is published in the June issue of History Today and his book America, Hitler and the UN will be published in November 2010 by IB Tauris. He is organising a research programme on the wartime UN with Professor Thomas G Weiss and Sir Brian Urquhart. Professor Chris Bellamy is Head of the Security Studies Institute at Cranfield Universityand the author of the award winning book Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. Paul Lay is Editor of History Today (see www.historytoday.com)

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