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The Origins of the United Nations Organization

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To understand fully the background and genesis of the United Nations Organization in 1945 it is necessary to give consideration to the nascent circumstances of the League of Nations some quarter of a century earlier, and to compare the two.

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© 1972 Sir John Wheeler-Bennett and Anthony Nicholls

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Wheeler-Bennett, J., Nicholls, A. (1972). The Origins of the United Nations Organization. In: The Semblance of Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02240-3_21

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