The entrance of Brazil into the United Nations

The Charter of the United Nations, signed at San Francisco on June 26, 1945, by the representatives of fifty nations, included as original members all twenty of the Latin American republics. The participation en masse of the Latin American states In the San Francisco Coherence and their subsequent adherence to the charter emphasized the increasingly active and important role these states have assumed in international relations and organization. Their part in international life is no longer passive, as was the case even at the beginning of the present century; and "some of them will expect, and may have the power, to play a far greater part in world affairs than heretofore."