In the post-1945 era the end of the Eurocentric imperial order coincided with the consolidation of a new kind of international society, featuring the proliferation of international organizations, NGOs, and other transnational entities. Membership of the United Nations quickly became the essential, uncompromisable goal of anti-colonial militants around the world who vowed to fight on until their flag flew on UN plaza in midtown Manhattan. Once they attained independence, most post-colonial political elites continued enthusiastically to embrace international institutionalization. In 1961, for example, the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, dedicated millions of dollars from his impoverished country's budget to building a grand modernist secretariat building and adjacent conference hall to house first the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and then the Organization for African Unity (OAU), founded two years later. Selassie justified the expense on the basis that this palace to globalism and continentalism would be “an inspiring symbol of the noble aspirations of the African people.” Similarly, in 1965, the government of the still war-ravaged, newly independent Algeria threw significant resources (mostly loaned from abroad) into the construction of a grandiose and ornate complex that included state-of-the-art conference facilities and a luxurious hotel, in order to host the Second Summit of Afro-Asian Heads of State, or “Bandung 2.” In the same way as the Ethiopian authorities took pride in Addis Ababa “opening its doors to the world,” Algeria's leaders boasted that the Nadi Snober complex (or “Pine Tree Club”) reflected how their own national capital had become “an important crossroads in global affairs.” A few months later, in January 1966, the Cuban government redecorated and illuminated large sections of Havana in order grandly to host the Tricontinental Conference, which brought together delegates (and entertainers) from around the world so that they might jointly combat imperialism. However, the spirit of anti-imperial solidarity was somewhat tarnished as numerous delegations argued vehemently over which country should have the honour of hosting a new permanent secretariat for the Afro-Asian-Latin American Solidarity Organization. Such squabbles reflected how greatly most Third World elites valued opportunities to become nexuses of internationalism.