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Founding of the UN

Herbert Vere ‘Doc’ Evatt, external affairs minister in the Curtin and Chifley governments, insisted smaller nations have greater influence in the newly formed UN, making the organisation more egalitarian.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF the United Nations began with the Declaration of St James’s Palace in 1941, which was the first joint statement of goals and principles produced by the Allies in World War II. It was signed

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