International organization

President Truman shown speaking to the governing board of the Pan American Union. The President told the gathering that the United Nations will and must succeed because "complete devastation" is the only alternative to international cooperation in this atomic age. From: Beth Gore

The Polish Provisional Government of National Unity became the 51st nation to sign the United Nations Charter. Minister for Foreign Affairs Wincenty Rzymowski, right, is shown signing the charter as Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, left, looks on. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of chief delegates of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, seen before a plenary meeting: Mr. Andrei Y. Vyskinsky, right, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Delegation Chairman, and Ambassador Yakov A. Malik, Permanent Representative to the United Nations. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of U.S.S.R. Representative Ambassador Yakov A. Malik (Center), meeting with reporters in the Lake Success' Delegates Lounge just before he assumed his turn as President of the United Nations Security Council. From: Beth Gore.

Vice President Alben Barkley (left)and United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie as guests of honor at the Triennial Dinner of the B'nai B'rith at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. In Mr. Lie's address, before a crowd of 1,000 guests, he called for a 20 year truce in the Cold War. From: Beth Gore

United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferring with President Truman at the White House. Lie, who had met earlier with the Secretary of State at the State Department for a discussion of the Cold War problems, reiterated that he brought no message from Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Left to right: President Harry S. Truman; Byron Price, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General; United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie; and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. From: Beth Gore

Portrait of Trygve Lie, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations on February 1, 1946. He was born in Calo, Norway on July 16, 1896, and holds a degree from the Oslo University Law School. He has served as Minister of Justice and of Commerce for his Government, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and represented Norway at the First Session of the United Nations General Assembly. From: Beth Gore

Photo of three top Norwegians at the State Department to confer with Secretary Acheson on the North Atlantic Pact. Shown after their conference are left to right, seated: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Lange; standing: Oscar Thorp, head of the Norwegian Labor Party, and Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne. From: Beth Gore.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Lange called on President Harry S. Truman before attending a final State Department Conference on Norway's possible entry into the North Atlantic Security Pact (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). He was accompanied by Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, left, and Oscar Torp, right, one of his advisers. From: Beth Gore.

An unknown man speaks at the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, held at the San Francisco, California Opera House. President Harry S. Truman is scheduled to deliver the closing address to hundreds of delegates from nations all over the world who met and drew up a United Nations Charter to insure world peace in the future. Behind the speaker, from left to right, are: Alger Hiss, Secretary of State Edward Stettinus, President Truman, and an unknown person. Naval Aide Captain James Vardaman is sitting at the far right.