Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"What is incontestable is that the UN’s founders had, in some way, created a new world order. The structure of international politics after 1945 was different from that after 1648 and 1815; different even from that after 1919, because it now brought all of the Great Powers into the tent (even the difficult United States) and had given the new international entity a broader remit to address the economic, social, and cultural reasons that it believed drove people toward conflict." [Kennedy: Parliament of Man, Kindle Edition, Location 829-40] "There was to be an assembly, mainly consultative, and a council, mainly executive. All peace-loving nations were to be represented with a single vote, whereas the Security Council was to have five permanent members: the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, and France, and six others, elected for two-year periods. The assembly could pass resolutions by majority vote and the Security Council could insist on action, even military action, although each permanent member could use a veto." [Furtado: 1001 Days]