1. This is made quite explicit in some of the earlier British position papers on the UN. See, for example, the memorandum by the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, on a future world organisation in which he says: ‘(i) It is improbable that the League of Nations can be revived in its old form but it is highly desirable that some international machinery, embodying many of the good features of the League, should be established on the conclusion of hostilities. (ii) In any case every effort should be made to preserve those technical and humanitarian services of the League which have been so conspicuously successful in the past.’ Text of memorandum in P. A. Reynolds and E. J. Hughes, The Historian as Diplomat (London, 1976) Appendix B, pp. 126–34.
2. E. J. Hughes, ‘Winston Churchill and the Formation of the United Nations Organisation’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 9., no. 4. (October 1974) pp 177–94; Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, vol. II (New York, 1948) pp. 1640–46.
3. D. Yergin, The Shattered Peace (London, 1978) pp. 47–8. See also T. M. Campbell, Masquerade Peace: America’s UN Policy, 1944–45, (Tallahassee, 1973) pp. 1, 89, 147, 156–7.
4. Reynolds and Hughes, The Historian as Diplomat p. 129.
5. G. L. Goodwin, Britain and the United Nations (London, 1957) p. 17.