San Francisco Conference: Dinners and Banquets

Delegates of fifty nations met in San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice. The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945, when China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and the United States and most of the other signatories had filed their instruments of ratification.

Cocktail Party at the colonial Room of the St. Francis given by Madame and T. V. Soong, 1 June 1945. On that day T. V. Soong became Premier of China. Left, T. V. Soong speaks with a delegate.