World capital or just another skyscraper : the story of the selection of New York as the seat of the United Nations and a plea for reconsideration / by W.R. Crocker. 1947.

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World capital or just another skyscraper : the story of the selection of New York as the seat of the United Nations and a plea for reconsideration / by W.R. Crocker. 1947.

"Summary of a book-size statement [Sir Walter Crocker] wrote in 1946-47 with a view to stirring up interest against New York as a seat of the U.N."

138 leaves ; 28 cm. ; in folder (32 cm.)

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Crocker, Walter R. (Walter Russell), 1902-....

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Official, soldier, diplomat, academic and writer. Many posts included Chief of Africa Section, United Nations Secretariat, 1946-1949; Professor of International Relations, Australian National University, 1949-1952, High Commissioner to India, 1952-1955, 1958-1962, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 1973-1982. From the description of World capital or just another skyscraper : the story of the selection of New York as the seat of the United Nations and a plea for reconsideration / ...

Crocker, Walter R. (Walter Russell), 1902-....

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Official, soldier, diplomat, academic and writer. Many posts included Chief of Africa Section, United Nations Secretariat, 1946-1949; Professor of International Relations, Australian National University, 1949-1952, High Commissioner to India, 1952-1955, 1958-1962, Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 1973-1982. From the description of World capital or just another skyscraper : the story of the selection of New York as the seat of the United Nations and a plea for reconsideration / ...

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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...