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The first session of the United Nations General Assembly was held on this day in 1946.

"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was." -- Thomas Carlyle.

"(The U. N. Charter) derives a little from the Ten Commandments, a little from the Covenant of the League of Nations, and a little from the fine print on a bill of lading," the humorist E. B. White wrote. "It is high in purpose, low in calories. Portions of it are sheer double-talk and, as a result, support double-dealing...The words of the Charter are soft and punky. The Charter makes 'agression' synonymous with 'wrongdoing', but drops the matter there, as though everyone understood the nature of sin. Yet...the users of force rarely think they are aggressing, and never admit they are. To simplify an idea this way is bad writing."