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Article: The United Nations for a better world; a forty-year chronology in pictures 1945-1985.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- April 1, 1985
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In the four decades since the Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945, the world has changed in a phenomenal way and so has the basic thrust and emphasis of United Nations activity.
As the peoples of Earth entered the atomic age, the main focus of the new-born Organization was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". Forty years later, the United Nations continues its efforts to prevent and contain wars, but a vast majority of its wide-ranging human and financial resources is concentrated on another Charter goal: "To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom" for ...