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| | : Britain and the UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | There are urgent memos in the Foreign Office archives from Gladwyn Jebb, then provisional Secretary-General, pleading with the Ministry of Works to unbrick the windows of Church House before the crucial inaugural meetings. |
 | | According to Jebb's assistant, Brian Urquhart, a typical scene in those first days involved 'the three doors of the office opening to admit, respectively, two London char-ladies, a consignment of typewriters, and the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia'. |
 | | Yet despite the practical difficulties and the exhaustion caused by six years of war, every account of the UN's foundation in 1945 reverberates with a sense of energy, idealism and new hope. |
| www.ukun.org /articles_show.asp?SarticleType=17&Article_ID=935 (2020 words) |
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