The 'Time & Tide' Map of the United Nations
Cartographer:
Gill, Leslie MacDonald, "Max"
Date of Creation:
1948
In 1948 British publisher George Philip & Son Ltd published a revised edition of MacDonald Gill's 'Time and Tide' map of the 'Atlantic Charter', originally commissioned by 'Time and Tide Magazine' in 1941 to commemorate the Anglo-American endorsement of the terms of the 'Atlantic Charter', which resulted from the meeting of British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland in August 1941. The aim of the 'Atlantic Charter' was to establish the ideals and principles of the post-war peace after the ultimate defeat of Fascism. The meeting took place just four months before America's entry into the war as Britain's ally, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The terms of the 'Atlantic Charter' were further endorsed by 26 international governments in the Declaration of the United Nations in January 1942 published during the Arcadia Conference. The 'Charter of the United Nations' proper, which laid the foundations of the United Nations organisation, emerged at the end of the War, when it was signed by fifty one signatory governments in San Francisco in June 1945, and came into force four months later in October 1945, after ratification by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and a majority of the other original signatories