A Transition of Internationalisms: Britain, the United States, and the Formation of the United Nations Information Organization during World War II
Journal: International Journal for History Culture and Modernity
Year: 2019

The United Nations Information Office (UNIO), dating from 1942, holds the distinction of being both the first international agency of the embryonic UN network and the first to hold the United Nations label. Run from 1942 to 1945 from two offices in New York and London, these two were merged at the end of World War II to form the UN Information Organisation, and subsequently transformed into the Department of Public Information run from UN headquarters in New York. This article adds to the histor