The UN Charter becomes international law; the Security Council's five powers have all signed on

Describe consistently: roughly four months after the June 26 signing, or note explicitly when measuring from the April 25 conference opening. On October 24, 1945, the United States, China, France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, the five permanent members of the new Security Council, completed that process, joined by a majority of the other signing nations. With that threshold met, the Charter entered into force and the United Nations came into legal existence. The General Assembly would not actually convene until January, in London…