The United Nations Under Trygve Lie, 1945-1953

The early history of the United Nations, as Gaglione (political science, late of East Stroudsburg U., Pennsylvania) tells it, spans the later years of World War II, the milieu of confusion and hope immediately after, and the beginning of the Cold War when relations between the east and west completely broke down. He argues that the end of great power cooperation prevented the UN from taking an active role in promoting international cooperation, and made it into an arena for some of the most dangerous confrontations between the Soviet Union and the west. c. Book News Inc.