General Assembly

Permanent Headquarters Committee of the United Nations General Assembly

11 December 1946

After debating the merits of making the UN's permanent home in Philadelphia, San Francisco or New York, all of which extended welcome invitations, Warren R. Austin, of the United States (standing, right foreground) announces the generous offer made by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of $8,500,000 for the purchase of a site on Manhattan's East River.

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