#36 - That Little Rat Leo Pasvolsky

from A COLD WAR · host Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

So after Sumner Welles resigned, the majority of the work on the UN charter was done by an interesting guy no-one remembers - Leo Pasvolsky. When he died in 1953, his New York Times obituary was subtitled "Wrote Charter of World Organization." In a 1967 letter, Dean Acheson criticized American moralism in international affairs, which he saw as culminating in "that little rat Leo Pasvolsky's United Nations.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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