The first UN Conference

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

How Field Marshall Jan Smutt and Lord Halifax were led astray by wild flowers at the first United Nations Conference in 1945 in San Francisco.

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Fri 23 Jun 199521:00

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Fri 23 Jun 199521:00
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