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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 name="sheriff">{{cite book
|last=Urquhart
|first=Brian
|authorlink=Brian Urquhart
|title=Looking for the Sheriff
|publisher=New York Review of Books, July 16, 1998
|accessdate=14 February 2007}}</ref> which emerged following  the [[Declaration by United Nations]] of January 1, 1942. In the words of a former Undersecretary General of the UN, Sir [[Brian Urquhart]]:

{{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]]
Each of the Four Policemen was to maintain order in its respective sphere: Britain in its empire and in Western Europe; the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the central Eurasian landmass; China in East Asia and the Western Pacific; and the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Given the weakness of the government of Jiang Kaishek, President Franklin D. Roosevelt foresaw the United States dominating China's sphere of influence. Thus, in effect, the United States would run two spheres and thereby maintain global supremacy over a declining Britain and a Soviet Union badly damaged by the Second World War.

==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]]
[[Category:Soviet Union –  United States relations]]


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