Event    From 10/1/1946  To 14/2/1946

First United Nations General Assembly

Held in in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Eleanor Roosevelt was a delegate at this and subsequent assemblies.

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First United Nations General Assembly

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Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet

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Thomas Bentley Westacott

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Ray Strachey

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Alfred Edward Reneson Coucher, OBE

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