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Toward United Nations | ||||
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The Five Cent Commemorative Issue of 1945 | ||||
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It was 1941 and the world was in chaos. President Franklin D. Roosevelt provided the foundation for world peace in his State of the Union ‘Four Freedoms Speech’ to Congress. Using these four points as a formula, Roosevelt championed a new world peace organization and proposed a United Nations Conference on International Organization to be held in San Francisco in April of 1945. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius then contacted President Roosevelt for his thoughts on a stamp series for the U.N. Conference. Several designs were rejected and on 3 April, Roosevelt suggested the wording “Toward United Nations, April 25, 1945”, drawn with a simple border and the words over a laurel branch. Roosevelt died two weeks before realizing his dream of a new organization and in his memory, the Bureau added his name to the design as the quote’s author. Intended as a postal ambassador for the fledgling U.N., the stamp was assigned a five cent value - the first class foreign surface rate. These exhibit pages demonstrate foreign destination usages arranged by continent. United Nations and U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration related items are of special interest. U.N. Delegate or Conference uses are of exceptional interest as only ten examples are recorded - two of which are in this exhibit. | ||||
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