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title: General Assembly
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/general-assembly-united-nations-1947/
description: 'United Nations information chart: a globe made of photographed faces, a photograph of the hall, and spheres on lines naming the Assembly''s committees.'
section: Collection
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[![General Assembly, 1947 Transnational poster: United Nations information chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/general-assembly-united-nations-1947.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/general-assembly-united-nations-1947.jpg)

# General Assembly

United Nations information chart: a globe made of photographed faces, a photograph of the hall, and spheres on lines naming the Assembly's committees, with a text on voting. Mostly explanatory; the technique is faint here, the closest being identity-fusion in the globe of many peoples merged into one image.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GENERAL ASSEMBLY

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

procedural committees: general committee; credentials committee
standing committees: advisory committee on administrative and budgetary questions; committee on contributions
main committees: 1. political and security; 2. economic and financial; 3. social, humanitarian and cultural; 4. trusteeship; 5. administrative and budgetary; 6. legal
ad hoc commission and committees: permanent headquarters committee; advisory committee on headquarters; joint committee of the general assembly and the security council on rules of procedure governing admission of new members; committee on the progressive development of international law and its codification; special technical committee on post-UNRRA relief; committee on information concerning non-self-governing territories; committee on procedure

GENERAL ASSEMBLY meets annually and also in special session at the request of the Security Council, or of a majority of the members. Each member has one vote and may not have more than five representatives. It annually elects a President and 7 Vice-presidents.
VOTING PROCEDURE: On important questions it is by a 2/3 majority of members present and voting. Such questions are: recommendations on maintenance of international peace and security; elections to Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council; admission, expulsion, suspension of rights and privileges of Members; operation of trusteeship system; and budgetary questions.
On other questions (including the determination of additional categories of questions to be decided by 2/3 majority) voting is by a simple majority of members present and voting.

UNITED NATIONS
Issued by United Nations, Department of Public Information, February 1947
LITHO IN U.S.A.
```

[← For trade, travel, defense: the American Merchant Marine! National Maritime Day, May 22, 1947](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-trade-travel-defense-merchant-marine-1947/) [Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947/)

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