The Planning of the Charter

Abstract

From the beginning of the Second World War it was taken for granted in most countries that a new international organisation would be required at its end. There was little disposition to revive the League, whose manifest failures were so universally deplored, and which was anyway already almost defunct by the time the war began (though it still maintained a lame-duck existence in Geneva). A new organisation would symbolise the birth of a new world, in which peace would now at last be more effectively safeguarded.