The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-05-22

II articles on the United Nations, what 1t is and
II how it works. Next weeks discussion will be
Il on the Security Council and the a-impOrt-
ant veto pOwers.)
TIE IDEA OF UNITED NATIONS
| is not new Peoples have been seeking way to
prevent wars for many hundreds of years. In our
times the winning nations of the First World War
held meeting in Paris to plan League of Nations
President Woodrow Wilson, who was the leader in
working out the plans for a world organization, was
not able to convince the Senate to our joining such an
organization Tile League failed because it was not
st ong enough to maintain the peace
Shortly after the Second World War started, the
leaders of the nations again began to plan together
fot the peace that would follow. In August, 1941,
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met on a
battechip in the North Atlantic and issued what
calleo the Atlantic Charter.
The Charter stated
that they did not want their countries to
take land away from other nation;
that they did not want any nation to take
new lands against the wishes of the peo-
pie living there;
that all people should have the right to
decide how they should be governed;
that all people should have chance to
trade prOfitably with the rest of the world;
that nations should work together to make
better living conditions for all their people;
that they wanted to establish peace under
which "all men in all lands may live out
their lives in freedom from fear and want;
that everyone should have a right to travt'
in safety across the seas
that nations which threaten the peace
should not be allowed to have weapons;
and that all nations should
possible reduce their armies and navies.
on NEW YEARS DAY, 1872
the representatives of 26 nations met at the
White House in Washington, D. c.. and signed pa
called the Declaration by United Nations" These
nations all agreed that they approved what was in
the Atlantic Charter, that they would all fight the
Axis tc the finish and that of them would
make peace with their enemies until victory
They were united but only the purpose of winning
the peace.
Ii October, 1943 Cordel Hull met with represen-
tatives of China Great Britain and the Soviet Union
at Moscow to discuss how to win the and the
peace They decided among other things they would
establish, they could, "a general interna-
tiona organization" which all peace-loving countries
could join on an equal basis, "for the maintenance
of international peace and security"
This Moscow Declaration was received in the
United States quite unlike the old League of Nations
The United States to take lead In the es-
adjustment of world organization whose aim it was
to maintain international peace and security.
THE DUMBARTON OAKS CONFERENCE
was held in Washington with the representatives of
the Big -Four China Great Britain, Soviet Union
and The United States in August and September
1914 to lay blueprint for the International organi-
cation
Those who met at Dumbart0n Oaks were
not able to agree on very important point
namely, how the voting should be done in
the Security Council. The YaIta Conference
between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, and Marshall Stain, which was held
in February, 1945, settled this vital question
with what is known the Yalta Veto For
mua This veto question will be discussed
next week in connection with the Security
ConciD.
AT this Yalta Conference, it was decided by the
Big Three to invite all the United Nations to consider
the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals at San Francisco
beginning April 25, 1945.
A few weeks before the San Francisco meeting the
Il republics of the Western Hemisphere held meet
ing in Mexico City. They agreed to sign paper
called the Act OF Chapultepec, which said that if any
one Of them were attacked they would consider it an
attack upon them all
THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
the United Nations Declaration the Moscou, no
claration the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals the Yalta
Conference, and the Act of Chapultepec- were
the principal milesones along the to San Fran
CISCO
Representatives of so nations met at San Fran
cisco April 25 1915 and after series of conferences
and meetings the present United Nations Charter was
approved
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