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Anti-Corn-Law League

(Encyclopedia)Anti-Corn-Law League, organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws. It was an affiliation of groups in various cities and districts with headquarters at Manchester and w...

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), specialized agency of the United Nations. Headquartered in Vienna, it was organized in 1966 and made a specialized UN agency in 1985. UNIDO'...

Solemn League and Covenant

(Encyclopedia)Solemn League and Covenant: see Covenanters. ...

United Nations Trusteeship Council

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Trusteeship Council: see trusteeship, territorial. ...

United Nations Children's Emergency Fund

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Children's Emergency Fund: see United Nations Children's Fund. ...

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters in Paris. Its counterpart in the League of Nations was the Inter...

United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes: see war crimes. ...

United Nations Atomic Energy Commission

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: see disarmament, nuclear. ...

United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments: see United Nations. ...

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), organization founded (1943) during World War II to give aid to areas liberated from the Axis powers. There were finally 52 participatin...