![]() ![]() ![]() That same year, British, American, and Indian soldiers clashed with the soldiers of the Third Reich, whose land settlement policies were framed against the philosophy of lebensraum, or “living space”-the conceit that a growing German population would require more land, the subjugation of other peoples, and the creation of farms in colonized territory where German peasants would settle. ![]() That same year, the organization had relocated away from its previous headquarters in Washington, D.C.: a move away from the halls of power, but toward the emerging power centers of New Delhi, Cairo, Moscow, Beijing, Jakarta, and Manila-and symbolically, at least, toward Mexico City, Santiago, Antigua, and Lima.Įight years earlier, international delegates had assembled in Hot Springs, Virginia, to spell out the work of the future United Nations. ![]() In 1951, officers of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) gathered in Rome to contemplate their founders’ mission: to serve the decolonizing nations of the world by helping peasants farm maintain control over their own land. ![]()
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