Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Let Us Beat our Swords into Ploughshares, UN Headquarters, New York
Evan Schneider-Creative Common
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
WHEN delegates from 50 nations signed the newly created UN Charter in April 1945 in San Francisco, its explicit mission was to keep “succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
The ceremony took place in late June and was immediately torpedoed — as it would be on many an occasion in the future — by cynical US doublespeak. On August 6 and 9 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated.
The UN general assembly met for the first time in London in January 1946 and 13 years years later in December 1959, at the height of the cold war, the government of the Soviet Union presented the UN with a bronze sculpture, Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares, by Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich, creator of the Stalingrad memorial.
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