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Even before celebrations for the end of World War II in Europe commenced, delegates from fifty-one nations began a conference in San Francisco to establish the United Nations, an international organization designed to maintain peace and security in the postwar world. Sixty-three days later, on June 26, 1945, the United Nations Charter was signed. As early as 1942, the United States had proposed establishing the world body, and in 1944 the groundwork was laid at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, D.C. The organization was to possess considerably more authority over its members than the defunct League of Nations, which had failed to prevent the outbreak of World War II. Edward Stettinius, who was undersecretary of state at the time, presided over that Allied meeting. A year later, Stettinius, as secretary of state, served as chairman of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. Less than a week after signing the U.N. Charter on behalf of the United States, he resigned his cabinet post to become the U.S. representative to the United Nations. The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly occurred on January 10, 1946, in London, England.
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