First General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London 70 years ago today (Jan 10 1946)


Video: 'Statement by C. R. Atlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - 1946'

(Thursday, January 10, 1946) — The fifty-one nations of the greatest wartime coalition in history, representing four-fifths of the people in the world, started another chapter in man’s melancholy search for peace and security today as the First session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at Westminster Central Hall in London.