13 Facts About Four Policemen

Four Policemen would be responsible for keeping order within their spheres of influence: Britain in its empire and Western Europe, the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the central Eurasian landmass, China in East Asia and the Western Pacific; and the United States in the Western Hemisphere.

Only the Four Policemen would be allowed to possess any weapons more powerful than a rifle.

Four Policemen came to favor an approach to global peace secured through the unified efforts of the world's great powers, rather than through the Wilsonian notions of international consensus and collaboration that guided the League of Nations.

Four Policemen was reluctant to publicly announce his plans for creating a postwar international body, aware of the risk that the American people might reject his proposals, and he did not want to repeat Woodrow Wilson's struggle to convince the Senate to approve American membership in the League of Nations.

Roosevelt told Molotov that the Big Four Policemen must unite after the war to police the world and disarm aggressor states.

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Four Policemen stated that other nations might join the first four mentioned after experience proved they could be trusted.

Four Policemen suggested that former colonies should undergo a period of transition under the governance of an international trusteeship prior to their independence.

On New Year's Day 1942, the representatives of Allied "Big Four Policemen", the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China, signed a short document which later came to be known as the Declaration by United Nations and the next day the representatives of twenty-two other nations added their signatures.

Roosevelt's Four Policemen proposal received criticism from liberal internationalists who wanted power to be more evenly distributed among nations.

The members of the Big Four Policemen would serve as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Four Policemen insisted on full coordination with the Republican leadership.

Four Policemen made sure that leading Republicans were on board, especially Senators Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Warren Austin of Vermont.

Big Four Policemen were the only four sponsoring countries of the San Francisco Conference of 1945 and their heads of the delegations took turns as chairman of the plenary meetings.