Records, 1941-1946.

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Records, 1941-1946.

Records of the New York office of the United Nations Information Organization (the only London office records are printed materials that were sent to New York) consist of accounting records, 1941-1946, including account books, correspondence, memos, reports concerning financial matters; administrative and organizational records, 1941-1946, including inter-office memos, resolutions and statutes of UNIO, 1944-1945, reports of the reference library, 1941-1946, and minutes and agenda of the United Nations Information Board and its subcommitees, 1941-1944, and of United Nations Inter-Allied committees and subcommittees in London, 1942-1945; bulletins, studies, bibliographies, reports, information releases, and documents published by UNIO, 1941-1946, mostly concerning World War II, postwar planning, and reconstruction; radio scripts, 1942-1946; photographs, 1941-1946; published and unpublished sheet music of the United Nations, 1942-1945; and correspondence, memos, press releases, and other documents generated by the UNIO at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, 1945-1946, which includes copies of the United Nations Charter in Russian, Spanish, and Chinese, and bound copies of "Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945."

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United Nations. Dept. of Public Information.

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Inter-Allied Information Center

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United Nations Information Office.

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United Nations Information Organization (New York, N.Y.)

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United Nations Information Organization (UNIO) was established by the Inter-Allied Information Committee in New York as the Inter-Allied Information Center in 1940. In 1942, it became the United Nations Information Office, and in 1944, together with a parallel information center in London, it became the United Nations Information Organization. When the United Nations Conference on International Organization convened in San Francisco in 1945, UNIO became its official information organ. In 1946, U...

United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Founding conference of the United Nations. From the description of United Nations Conference on International Organization proceedings, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868789 At this conference, held April 25, 1945 to June 25, 1945, delegates approved the Charter of the United Nations, the Statute of the International Court of Justice, and arrangements for the establishment of the United Nations Preparatory Commission. From the description of Records, 194...

United Nations Information Organisation (London, England)

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United Nations Information Board

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...