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New York Property within Headquarters Site Is Turned over to United Nations
At a city playground located on the north side of East 42nd Street (within the site of the future UN Headquarters), Archbishop Francis Cardinal Speelman delivers an invocation to mark the transfer of property to the United Nations. From left to right: Cardinal Spellman; Grover Whalen, Chairman of the Mayor's Committee for reception of UN; Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Senator Warren R. Austin, of the United States; Col. W. R. Hodgson, of Australia; and Roland Lebeau, of Belgium.
13 April 1947
United Nations, New York
Photo # 309337
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