From 1942, Rotary pushed the idea of a postwar world organization. A London conference that year gathered education ministers from twenty-one governments, many of them governments in exile, and that work fed the planning of UNESCO.
Rotary mailed clubs booklets on Dumbarton Oaks, Bretton Woods, and the San Francisco plan. At the Charter conference the United States invited Rotary, one of forty-two organizations, to consult with the American delegation.
Rotary’s own 1955 history claims credit for the humane side of the Charter, especially Article 71, which lets the Economic and Social Council consult private organizations.
Surely a prophet like David O. McKay could have seen the leftist lurch he was setting the church on... right?