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A JOINT DECLARATION BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, CHINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, COSTA RICA, CUBA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, HONDURAS, INDIA, LUXEMBOURG, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NORWAY, PANAMA, POLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, YUGOSLAVIA

The Governments signatory hereto,

Having subscribed to a common program of purposes and principles embodied in the Joint Declaration of the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of Great Britain dated August 14, 1941, known as the Atlantic Charter,

Being convinced that complete victory over their enemies is essential to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as well as in other lands, and that they are now engaged in a common struggle against savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world,

Declare:

(1) Each Government pledges itself to employ its full resources, military or economic, against those members of the Tripartite Pact and its adherents with which such government is at war.

(2) Each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto and not to make a separate armistice or peace with the enemies.

The foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are, or which may be, rendering material assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism. [21]

Signatories

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Wartime poster for the United Nations, created by the US Office of War Information
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Wartime poster for the Allies of World War II, created in 1942 by the US Office of War Information, showing the 26 members of the alliance
Declaration by United Nations
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"The United Nations Fight for Freedom" — Office of War Information poster, 1943
Original signatories [22]
Big Four [17] [23]
Dominions of the British Commonwealth
Independent countries in the Americas
European governments-in-exile
Non-independent subjects of the British EmpireBritish Raj Red Ensign.svg India
Later signatories [22]
1942
1943
1944
1945

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Notes

  1. ↑ "1941: The Declaration of St. James' Palace". United Nations. 2015-08-25. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Lauren, Paul Gordon (2011). The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 140–41. ISBN   978-0-8122-2138-1.
  3. ↑ Weinberg, Gerhard L. (2005). A World at Arms, a global history of World War II (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 284–5. ISBN   9780521853163.
  4. ↑ Woodward, Llewellyn (1962). British Foreign Policy in the Second World War. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 162–3.
  5. 1 2 United Nations Department of Public Information (1986). Everyone's United Nations. Vol. 10. p. 7. ISBN   9789211002737 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "The Inter-Allied Council Meeting in London." Bulletin of International News 18, no. 20 (1941): 1275-280. Accessed April 5, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25643120.
  7. ↑ "Inter-Allied Council Statement on the Principles of the Atlantic Charter : September 24, 1941". Avalon Project . Yale Law School. 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  8. ↑ The name "United Nations" for the World War II allies was suggested by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States as an alternative to the name "Associated Powers". British Prime Minister Winston Churchill accepted it, noting that the phrase was used by Lord Byron in the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Stanza 35). Manchester, William; Reid, Paul (2012). The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm . The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill. Vol. 3. New York: Little Brown and Company. p. 461. ISBN   978-0-316-54770-3.
  9. ↑ "United Nations". Wordorigins.org. 3 February 2007. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2014). "Nothing to Conceal". The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 397. ISBN   978-0385353069.
  11. ↑ David Roll, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler (2013) pp 172–175
  12. ↑ Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, An Intimate History (1948) pp 447–453
  13. ↑ Bevans, Charles I. Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776–1949 . Volume 3. "Multilateral, 1931–1945". Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969, p. 697.
  14. ↑ Thomas A. Bailey The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in 1947. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1977, p. 227.
  15. ↑ "1942: The Declaration by United Nations". United Nations. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  16. ↑ Ma, Xiaohua (2003). "The Sino-American alliance during World War II and the lifting of the Chinese exclusion acts". American Studies International. 38 (2). New York: Routledge: 203–204. ISBN   0-415-94028-1. JSTOR   41279769.
  17. 1 2 "The Moscow Declaration on general security". Yearbook of the United Nations 1946-1947. Lake Success, NY: United Nations. 1947. p. 3. OCLC   243471225 . Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  18. ↑ Townsend Hoopes; Douglas Brinkley (1997). FDR and the Creation of the U.N. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-06930-3 . Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  19. ↑ "Act of Chapultepec". The Oxford Companion to World War II, I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot (2001)
  20. ↑ Drakidis, Philippe (1995). The Atlantic and United Nations Charters: common law prevailing for world peace and security. Centre de recherche et d'information politique et sociale. p. 131 – via Google Books.
  21. ↑ Text from "The Washington Conference 1941-1942"
  22. 1 2 "The Declaration by United Nations". Yearbook of the United Nations 1946-1947. Lake Success, NY: United Nations. 1947. pp. 1–2. OCLC   243471225 . Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  23. ↑ Ma, Xiaohua (2003). The Sino-American alliance during World War II and the lifting of the Chinese exclusion acts. Vol. 38. New York: Routledge. pp. 203–204. ISBN   0-415-94028-1. JSTOR   41279769.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

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