The Americans feel the United Nations to be the crucial issue of the Conference, and come to conference with plan including equality of all nations, the preservation of Great Power unity, self-determination and other stratagems aimed at preserving Western control over the world organization. The formula’s core is formed by a Security Council with permanent members (including the Big Three) and rotating members. Initial disputes arise between Roosevelt and Stalin over picking which nations will attend UN. Arguments include inclusion of small Soviet republics within the UN as well as Chinese and French membership. The conference concludes without a tripartite agreement on Roosevelt’s proposal, but consensus that the Security Counsel permanent members will meet again before proposed San Francisco Conference.
