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FDR and the Creation of the U.N. Hardcover – March 27, 1997

by Townsend Hoopes (Author), Professor Douglas Brinkley (Author)

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Prize-winning historians Hoopes and Brinkley tell the engrossing story of the American role in the formation of the United Nations and provide an important historical perspective on the organization`s fifty-year history of peacekeeping efforts. They show how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, disenchanted with the failed League of Nations and determined to break the cycle of ever more destructive wars, worked with American and foreign leaders and became the driving force behind the creation of the U. N.

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Roosevelt's view of the United Nations in 2014?

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That is what I was wondering when reading the excellent book about the creation of the UN. When you read the book you may wonder too. The UN has not delivered what he hoped for that is permanent peace. There has not been a third world war and may be the UN has made a contribution. There have however several wars between small countries and civil wars. The UN has shown itself to be a more useful organization than the League of Nations it replaced.

Roosevelt realized that the allocation of responsibility to prevent and halt wars could only be assigned to great powers and that if these great powers would not join the UN unless, the "Policemen" had a right of veto on the use of force. Roosevelt would be disappointed that these veto powers were used so frequently. Roosevelt would have expected at there would be one United Europe representative with real power instead stead of two representing only a small part of Europe. He would also have welcomed India and Japan to join the Security Council. He would still be convinced that his idea of a few large powers with the responsibility to maintain peace was the right principle. He would have concluded that new methods have to found to reduce tensions inside and between states and solve poverty problems.

This book describes in an excellent and complete way the difficulties to arrive at the organization and its rules and authority. The authors also describe the organizational weaknesses of the UN organization such as the lack of competences of many of the staff and the immense difficulties to reorganizing the UN to become more efficient and effective.

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"The challenge to the American political system is to recognize both the fundamental importance of the United Nations organization and it's limitations. The United States should take a leading role in an effort to strengthen a UN peacekeeping system that is deliberately designed to reduce the need for US-led military effort. Our civilization needs a police force. The best available combination solution is still the United Nations strongly supported by the United States-the formula that Franklin Roosevelt fought with all his strength to achieve more than half a century ago."

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A bad President!

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NOT ALL THAT IT SEEMS

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The penultimate point missing from this text and frankly most texts on this subject matter is the fact that Roosevelt's White House and the bulk of his advisers were either agents of the USSR or Communist sympathizers. What people have to remember is that the governments of the powerful nations in the West at the end of WWII were all Left. From the Democrats to Labour to whatever was running France and of coarse the USSR. The USSR did not stop spying and subverting the West from 1910 until Roosevelt, himself a Communist sympathizer, created the mess dubbed the UN. The authors of this wonderful propaganda completely neglect to relate the history of Marxism up until the point the UN was created. It also never relates the impact of the spread Communism on the failure of the League of Nations and it's direct role in the rise of Hitler and the very causes of WWI and WWII. The Marxist goal of world domination had existed since the creation of the Communist League in the 1840's. Marx had made it very clear then that their prime target would be the growing industrial powerhouse of Germany. When was Hitler born again? Lenin took over from Marx and supported every revolutionary and anarchist group on the globe. This included the very group who murdered the Arch Duke Ferdinand which sparked the shooting war in 1914. Roosevelt did everything in his power to suck up to Stalin from his election in 1933 ( the first thing he did as President was recognize the USSR, a nation which at the culmination of this recognition was in the process of murdering millions of people). It was Roosevelt's acquiescence to Stalin that made the more sane advice of Churchill mute. When the USSR ( NOT Russia. Russia ceased to exist with the abdication of the Czar and the fall of the Kerensky Government ) signed the Atlantic Charter it had just carved up Poland, attempted to invade Finland and took over the Baltic Countries. When the US was bombed the USSR had signed a non-aggression pact with Japan. The entire US strategy during WWII was to stay as far away from advancing Communist forces as possible while supplying them over ALL other Allies to include Nationalist China. I suggest that anyone that reads this book take into consideration that the US was an enemy of the USSR throughout WWII. It was NEVER and Ally. The UN was an attempt by sympathizers in the West to establish a one world order over which Socio-communism would rule. It was essentially a move to a Communist globalism. This is why all Left nations in the world threw Eastern Europe to the wolves and China. The aspirations of the USSR and their foreign allies ensconced within Western Governments was much broader. It is an insult to intelligence to think any other way. The UN simply provided a forum and a means by which the USSR and its oppressed satellites could continue to engulf the world. All it took was to recognize exactly what Marxism was. It was no different than Mussolini's Fascism and Hitler's National Socialism. Yet, the so-called free world negotiated with a confirmed psychopath whose ideology actually saw to the rise of those similar ideologies. Only a complete idiot could not have seen what was to come. The UN has done nothing for the planet except provide money and excuses while supporting the rise of evil. The UN was also created to divide the West and it's policies towards it's defense against Communist aggression. Nations in the West now had to segment their military policy and resources to include UN peacekeeping. Every single spat in the world being fueled by the USSR and the PRC. From Korea to Hungary to Angola to Cuba. If the leaders of the Western world had any sense they would have cut off the USSR from all assistance and allow it to die back in the inter-war period. This would have prevented the rise of Hitler and it would have possibly opened the door to the possibility of a more representative government in Russia. This even if it meant the reinstatement of a monarch with a working parliament. The greatest scourge on the earth by far was Marxism and the two authors of this book treat it as though it was simply a sneeze in history. This is propaganda and lies.

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AN OUTSTANDING BOOK DESCRIBING THE FORMATION AND INNER WORKINGS OF THE U.N.

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017

The book is great for it covers how the U.N. was formed under the leadership of Pres Roosevelt. With all of the departments clearly describe still the most important item was the vote or the veto power in the Security Council. We witnessed how that worked with tremendous authority when the U.S. Ambassador refrained from voting. I would recommend the book to anyone who wishes to know more about the inner workings of the U.N. I was surprised to learn too the U.S. owes so much money to the U.N. The U.S.is not alone however. Harry G. Farrow, Jr.former owner, Publisher, and Editor of The Harrington Journal, Harrington, DE.

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