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DEDENALARY PARAGUAY.
PRACTICALLY EVERY nation in the world has been represented in the open meetings of the United Nations. Here a UN. employee takes nameplates out of storage for the 68-country General Assembly.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1948,
U.N. U.N. IN 1948
Nineteen hundred and forty-eight was the year in which man flow faster. than sound but could not grow and produce enough to keep everyone fed and clothed. It was the third full year since the guns of the Second World War were silenced but a time in which the crack of Individual rifles was frequently heard. It was the year in which more efficient processes for obtaining insulin were developed but in which more than 30,000,000 European children were found to have been infected by tuberculosis.
During that year, the 58-country organisation to which the peoples of the world had assigned the task of keeping peace-the United Nations-faced many of the underlying problems which had created the paradoxes of 1948. As it had from its first days, U.N. continued to organise the nations of the world to pro- duce more and to increase trade. It kept at the tasks of maintaining peace, even when, as in the problem of Berlin, they grew out of questions which the world. had assumed would be settled before U.N. was a working organisation. It worked to settle dangerous conflicts, such us that in Palestine. It listed results in social flelds, such as the fight against disease, and again showed how closely the world's troubles were interconnected.
U.N., at the end of 1948, was no longer the Infant organisation it had been. It now was a a year before, when Its machinery had barely been completed. functioning organism under whose fag the world had a chance to maintain a the lasting peace. In fact, said U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, United Nations has become the chief force that holds the world together against Indeed, the all conflicting strains and stresses that are pulling it apart. ... organs of the United Nations are now virtually the only places where regular contact and discussion have been maintained on a continued basis.
A quick sweep with the camera over last year's events shows how and where the United Nations is serving to hold the world together. It shows, for instance, the face of Count Folke Bernadotte who died for peace in the Holy Land. It shows the General Assembly hammering out a Bill of Human Rights for the peoples of the world. It shows the will toward' continued co-operation,
despite obstacles, among the family of nations.
PEOPLE IN more than 50 countries gave some $20,000,000 in 1918 to the United Nations Appcal for Children (UNAC). Much of the money went to the UN. International Children's Emergency
Fund, which is Inoculating 15,000,000 youngsters against TB and is helping feed 4,500,000 daily. Here a brother and sister In China. Curn in 'their voluntary contributions to a local UNAC office.
THE THIRD General Assembly session was held in the Palais de Chaillot at Paris. Among the issues before the free forum of the
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world were control of atomic energy, pence in Palestine, disarmament, U.N. guard forée, better relations. in the Balkans and human rights.
FIRST LARGE-SCALE economic mission to a member country was organised by U.N. and four specialised agencies in 1948 to find. solutions to
some of Haiti's basic problems.
markot place in the Caribbean island Republic, which has one of the world's dengest populations, la shown here.
FOR THE FIRST TIME in their history, the people of Southern Korea voted in 1948 for a government of their own choosing. The way for the voting, shown above, was prepared and the election supervised by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea.
HERO OF PEACE, Count Folke Bernadotte was murdered while on duty in Palestinc. Tho
Swedish nobleman, one of eight killed in U.N. posts in Palestine, was U.N. Mediator in the Holy
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VIGOROUS HEALTH PROGRAMMES came from the World Health. Organisation (WHO), which became a Here a home in permanent agency in 1948. Greece is sprayed with -DDT in anti-malaria pro- gramme which was designed by WHO specialists.
MOST SERIOUS problem before the the Security Council in 1948 was Berlin question, which involved four of the five permanent members of
TROUBLE BETWEEN Indla and Pakistaň over the State of Jammu and Kashmir were Investigated by U.N. In 1948. Here members of the U.N. Commission on India and Pakistan (centre and right) talk with local offelals. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, another United Nations committee chalked up a bralc agreement on a couse-fire.
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