--- description: Almost unnoticed, the Executive Committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission did a great deal of work in a great deal of harmony.There were only a few divided votes, and on most of these the... title: International: Silver Lining image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # International: Silver Lining by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 15, 1945 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 15, 1945 5:00 AM CUT Almost unnoticed, the Executive Committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission did a great deal of work in a great deal of harmony. There were only a few divided votes, and on most of these the great opponents, the U.S. and Russia, were in the same camp. Both favored a U.S. city (probably San Francisco) as the permanent seat of U.N.O. Subcommittees even discussed control of the atom bomb without fissioning into factions. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6783307/international-silver-lining/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6783307/international-silver-lining/"},"headline":"International: Silver Lining","datePublished":"1945-10-15T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T16:22:05.567Z","description":"Almost unnoticed, the Executive Committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission did a great deal of work in a great deal of harmony.There were only a few divided votes, and on most of these the...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6783307/international-silver-lining/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6783307/international-silver-lining/","name":"International: Silver Lining"}}]}] ```