“The advent of a world where human beings will be free to speak and believe, free from terror and misery.
In New York, from the Four Freedom Park, a monument created by William vanden Heuvel to celebrate Franklin Roosevelt's "four freedoms speech" in January 1941, the view is breathtaking over the world institution born in 1945, and inspired by this speech.
If the city, abused in recent years, continues to reinvent itself, the United Nations (UN) nevertheless seems plunged into an eternal glaze.
That of obsolescence and museumification: we now pay more than at the Met or MoMA to visit the UN, yesterday in free access.
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