4 INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION IN WAR-TIME AND PLANS ... 391internment of Japanese diplomatic and consular officials.^160 Fittingly, the
IPR conference at the Homestead Hotel attached much importance to
the organisation of international collaboration for the improvement of
health and nutrition in discussing social, political, and economic develop-
ment in dependent territories.^161
Post-war planning proceeded apace in the wake of the Food and
Agriculture Conference. On November 9, the same forty-four nations
who had sent delegates to that conference, participated in a meeting at
the White House which saw the establishment of the UNRRA. In July
1944, the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference took
place at Bretton Woods. In late August and early of October of that
year at Dumbarton Oaks, representatives of the Republic of China, the
Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States met in order
to deliberate over the design of the successor organisation to the League.
Roosevelt’s victory in the presidential election later that year, during
which he had campaigned for the creation of a United Nations, serve
to quell much of the lingering apprehension about whether the United
States would fully assume its responsibilities for promoting world free-
dom from want and fear.^162
In a foreword dated February 12, 1945, the editor of what was billed
as a preliminary report of the conference, namely, War and Security in
the Pacific, commenced by noting that while writing his introduction
to the report, the radio had announced that on April 25 that the mem-
bers of the United Nations would meet at San Francisco ‘to fashion the
Dumbarton Oaks proposals into the new pattern of world security.’^163
The editor of the report went on to state that the conference at Hot
Springs was a ‘fitting prelude’ to San Francisco because it covered a great
number of the problems which would call for a decision there.^164
One of those problems covered at the conference was collective security,
the discussion of which was preceded by an opening statement by Percy
(^160) ‘The Memoirs of William L. Holland,’ in Hooper, ed., Remembering the Institute
of Pacific Relations, 38. For the internment of Japanese officials at the Homestead Hotel
see Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: American’s Vision for Human Rights
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 116.
(^161) International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, Security in the Pacific, 114.
(^162) Ibid., x, 24, 124.
(^163) Ibid.
(^164) Ibid.