How the UN won the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1533944,00.html
Dan Plesch
Friday July 22, 2005
The Guardian
The history told about the defeat of Nazism and the founding of the
United Nations in the 1940s has become distorted. A false view of the
past is being used today to shape how we think about our future. The
military power of the victorious wartime allies is offered as a model
for running the world, while the UN's supposed utopianism is seen as
ineffective and irrelevant.
This is a travesty of the facts. We are taught that the UN began with
the signing of the charter in 1945. In fact that agreement was the
culmination of a military and political effort that began in 1941.
Understanding the UN's wartime origins provides a much-needed reminder
that the UN is not some liberal accessory but a realistic necessity.
Dan Plesch
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