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[[Image:Cairo conference.jpg|thumb|300px|Generalissimo [[Chiang Kai-shek]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[Winston Churchill]] met at the [[Cairo Conference]] in 1943 during [[World War II]].]]

'''"The Four Policemen"''' was a term coined by [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], to refer to four major [[Allies of World War II]] and founders of the [[United Nations]] (UN): the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Soviet Union]], and [[Republic of China|China]].

Roosevelt's phrase symbolized his conception of the post-World War II world, though the idea would not come to fruition until the establishment of the UN,<ref>{{deadlink}}[http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/sheriff.htm  name="sheriff">{{cite book
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{{quote|It was a pragmatic system based on the primacy of the strong &mdash; a "[[trustee]]ship of the powerful," as he then called it, or, as he put it later, "the Four Policemen." The concept was, as [Senator Arthur H.] [[Arthur H. Vandenberg|Vandenberg]] noted in his diary in April 1944, "anything but a wild-eyed internationalist dream of a world state.... It is based virtually on a four-power alliance." Eventually this proved to be both the potential strength and the actual weakness of the future UN, an organization theoretically based on a concert of great powers whose own mutual hostility, as it turned out, was itself the greatest potential threat to world peace.<ref name="sheriff" />}}

==See also==
*[[Allies of World War II]]

==Footnotes==

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[[Category:Politics of World War II]]
[[Category:History of the United Nations]]
[[Category:United Nations coalitions and unofficial groups]]
[[Category:United States and the United Nations]]
[[Category:China and the United Nations]]


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