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The United Nations for a better world; a forty-year chronology in pictures 1945-1985.
UN Chronicle
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April 1, 1985
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COPYRIGHT 1985 United Nations Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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In the four decades since the Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, the world has changed in a phenomenal way and so has the basic thrust and emphasis of United Nations activity.
As the peoples of Earth entered the atomic age, the main focus of the new-born Organization was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". Forty years later, the United Nations continues its efforts to prevent and contain wars, but a vast majority of its wide-ranging human and financial resources is concentrated on ...
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