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

Date: 1947
Period: Cold War
Made by: United Nations, Department of Public Information
Region: North America
Country: Transnational
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: No single regime or leader
Leader: No single regime or leader
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War II
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. government work)
United Nations, Department of Public Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-852 (NAID 514346).

Text on the object

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

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
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