Geoffrey Roberts

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The United Nations came into official existence on October 24, 1945, two months after the end of the Second World War. Fifty countries were members, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.