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We are told that it was Franklin D. Roosevelt himself1 who thought up the name ‘United Nations’ after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Early the following year, he secured Winston Churchill’s approval for the term after bursting into his room at the White House while he was taking a bath. Apocryphal or not, the tale sturdily illustrates the vividness of the US relationship with the concept of the UN even before it came into formal being.
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Robert A. Divine, Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America during World War II ( New York: Atheneum, 1967 ), pp. 47–8.
William J. Durch, ed., UN Peacekeeping, American Politics, and the Uncivil Wars of the 1990s ( Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1997 ), p. 10.
Rosemary Righter, Utopia Lost. The United Nations and World Order ( New York: The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995 ), p. 211.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pilgrimage for Peace. A Secretary-General’s Memoir ( Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1997 ) pp. 8–9.
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McDermott, A. (2000). Washington: the UN’s Dear Donor and Delinquent. In: The New Politics of Financing the UN. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27765-0_7
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