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The U.S. Senate votes to join the fledgling United Nations, 65-7. In the aftermath of World War II the value of an organization that would resolve international conflicts peacefully was widely acknowledged. Those 65 senators who voted to join the organization remembered the fiasco that followed the First World War, when President Woodrow Wilson played a leading role in organizing the League of Nations—only to have the Senate vote down U.S. participation in November 1919, by a vote of 53 nays to 38 yeas. But within 20 years the world was again at war and the climate had changed. (The name "United Nations" was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who went for it immediately, as it recalled lines from Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": "Their children's lips shall echo them, and say—'Here, where the sword united nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day!'" Byron was referring to the battle of Waterloo.)