Part I. Wartime Documents Looking Toward Peace

The Four Freedoms - Annual Message of the President to Congress, January 6, 1941 (Exceprts)

The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941

Declaration by the United Nations, January 1, 1942

Master Lend-Lease Agreement

The Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943

The Quebec Conference, August 17-24, 1943

Address by the President Before the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa, August 25, 1943 (Excerpts)

Fulbright Resolution

The Moscow Conference, October 13-30, 1943

Connally Resolution, November 5, 1943

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), November 9, 1943

United States Participation in UNRRA, March 28, 1944

The Cairo Conference, November 22-26, 1943

The Tehran Conference November 28-December 1, 1943

ILO - Declaration Concerning Aims and Purposes, May 10, 1944

The Crimea (Yalta) Conference, February 4-11, 1945

The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945

Part II. Conferences on the Peace Settlement

First Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, London

Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Moscow

Second Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Paris

Paris Peace Conference, July 29 to October 15, 1946

Third Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, New York

Fourth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Moscow

Fifth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, London

Sixth Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Paris

Part III. United Nations: Basic Organization

The Charter of the United Nations, June 26, 1945

Statute of the International Court of Justice, June 26, 1945

Proclamation of United Nations Charter and Statute of the International Court of Justice

Acceptance of Compulsory Jurisdiction of International Court of Justice, August 2, 1946

United Nations Participation Act, December 20, 1945

Amendment of United Nations Participation Act, October 10, 1949

International Organizations Immunities Act, December 9, 1945

Convention on the Priviledges and Immunities of the United Nations, February 13, 1946

Headquarters of the United Nations

United Nations Flag

United Nations Day

Establishment of an Interim Committee of the General Assembly

Vandenberg Resolution

Part IV. United Nations: Specialized Agencies

Convention on Universal Postal Union, Revision of July 5,1947 (Excerpts)

The Bretton Woods Agreements

Convention on International Civil Aviation, December 7, 1944 (Excerpts)

Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, November 16, 1945

Participation in UNESCO, July 30, 1946

Constitution of the World Health Organization, July 22, 1946

Participation in WHO, June 14, 1948

Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, December 15, 1946

Participation in IRO, July 1, 1947

Convention of the World Meteorlogical Organization, October 11, 1947

Convention of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, March 6, 1948

Charter of International Trade Organization, March 24, 1948 (Excerpts)

Part V. The Inter-American System(1)

Havana Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21-30,1940

Rio De Janiero Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, January 15-28, 1942

Act of Chapultepec; March 6, 1945

Rio De Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, (The Rio Treaty) August 15-September 2, 1947

Bogota Conference of American States, Charter of the Organization of American States; March 30-May 2, 1948

Waging Peace in the Americas : Address by Secretary Acheson; September 19, 1949

Part VI. Defeated and Occupied Areas

Part VII. Other Areas of Special Interest to the United States

Palestine

Attitude of American Government Toward Palestine - Letter From President Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud, April 5, 1945

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (Only excerpts were printed in the source document. The Avalon Project has provided the full text.)

Immigration into Palestine - Statement by President Truman, October 4, 1946

United States Position on Palestine Question - Statement by Herschel V. Johnson, United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations, October 11, 1947

Partition of Palestine : Resolution of the General Assembly; November 29, 1947

United States Position on the Palestine Problem - Statement by Ambassador Warren R. Austin, United States Representative in the Security Council, March 19, 1948

United States Proposal for Temporary United Nations Trusteeship for Palestine - Statement by President Truman, March 25, 1948

Appointment of United Nations Mediator in Palestine

Independence of Israel - Letter From the Agent of the Provisional Government of Israel to the President of the United States, May 15, 1948

Conclusions From Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, September 16, 1948

Creation of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine - Resolution of the General Assembly, December 11, 1948

Report on Status of the Armistice Negotiations and Truce in Palestine, July 21, 1949 (Excerpts)

U.S Congressionsal Joint Resolution, March 24, 1949 - For the authorization of a special contribution by the United States for the relief of Palestine refugees

Assistance to Palestine Refugees - Resolution of the General Assembly, December 8, 1949

International Regime for the Jerusalem Area and Protection of the Holy Places - Resolution of the General Assembly, December 9, 1949

International Control of Atomic Energy

General Findings and Recommendations Approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and Incorporated in its First Report to the Security Council, December 31, 1946

Second Report of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, September 11, 1947

Third Report of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, May 17, 1948

Reports of Atomic Energy Commission

Atomic Explosion in the U. S. S. R.

International Control of Atomic Energy

Soviet Misinterpretaton of U. S. Position

Continuing Effort to Reach Agreement on Atomic Energy Control

Regulation and Reduction of Armaments

Principles Governing the General Regulation and Reduction of Armaments

Implementation of General Assembly Resolutions on the Principles Governing the General Regulation and Reduction of Armaments and Information on Armed Forces

Plan of Work Adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments, July 8, 1947

United States Position on Regulation of Conventional Armaments

Formulation of Proposals for Regulation and Reduction of Armaments and Armed Forces

Definition of Armaments

Arms Census

Armed Forces for the United Nations

Work of the Military Staff Committee : Speech by Herschel V. Johnson, Deputy United States Representative, June 4, 1947 (Excerpt)

Part VIII. Current International Interests

War Criminals

International Military Tribunal for Germany, August 8, 1945

International Military Tribunal for the Far East, January 19. 1946

Collective Self-Defense

North Atlantic Treaty, April 4, 1949

1 For documents on the earlier evolution of the Inter-American Regional System, see Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The International Conferences of American States, 1889-1928 and First Supplement 1933-1940, New York, 1931,1940; see also the following Pan American Union pamphlets: The Basic Principles of the Inter-American System, Washington, 1943, and The Inter-American System, Washington, 1947. Back