bloodied, battered but still a huge international achievement 80 years on
- Written by Conor O'Kane, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Bournemouth University
In July 1944, with war still raging in Europe and the Pacific, 730 delegates from 44 countries gathered at the Mount Washington, a grand hotel built at the turn of the century in New Hampshire. They were on the edge of a little town called Carroll, surrounded by a national forest not far from the Canadian border. But the name that would become...