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Australia signs the United Nations Charter. H.V. Evatt signing the UN Charter in San Francisco, 1945

Herbert Vere Evatt (Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs), member of the delegation from Australia, signing the United Nations Charter at a ceremony held at the Veterans' War Memorial Building in San Francisco, 1945.

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