Posted Feb 6, 2021, 4:40 PM
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Plenary pleasures.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Monterey CA
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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
Keep in mind that Chicago offered Northerly Island as the home of the UN. Surprisingly, they decided not to spend their winters out in Lake Michigan downwind of the stockyards.
Leaving aside the problem of travel time to Chicago in a pre-jetliner era, Charlene Mires writes in Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations that the site selection committee summarily ruled out all Midwestern locations because of the famous isolationism of the region's newspapers. Obviously, Col. McCormick's Tribune was leader of the pack, having been a loud, steadfast, and influential opponent of US involvement in World War II.
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The Chicago Tribune, always on the wrong side of history:
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