Navy Island as the Capital of the World: The Niagara Proposal for the United Nations Headquarters

By Don Glynn - April 17, 2019

With the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco in June 1945, the race was on to find a suitable location for the organization’s headquarters. And hundreds of cities from around the United States—and the world—sought to plead their case.

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