DECLARATION BY UNITED NATIONS (original) (raw)

(Subscribing to the Principles of the Atlantic Charter, January 1, 1942)

Source:
Pamphlet No. 4, PILLARS OF PEACE
Documents Pertaining To American Interest In Establishing A Lasting World Peace:
January 1941-February 1946
Published by the Book Department, Army Information School,
Carlisle Barracks, Pa., May 1946

...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 United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dated August 14, 1941, known as the Atlantic Charter.

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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.

DONE at Washington

January First, 1942

[The signatories to the Declaration by United Nations are as listed above.

The adherents to the Declaration by the United Nations, together with the date of communication of adherence, are as follows:

Mexico ......... June 5, 1942 Ecuador ........ Feb. 7, 1945 Philippines .... June 10, 1942 Peru ........... Feb. 11, 1945 Ethiopia ....... July 28, 1942 Chile .......... Feb. 12, 1945 Iraq ........... Jan. 16, 1943 Paraguay ....... Feb. 12, 1945 Brazil ......... Feb. 8, 1943 Venezuela ...... Feb. 16, 1945 Bolivia ........ Apr. 27, 1943 Uruguay ........ Feb. 23, 1945 Iran ........... Sept. 10, 1943 Turkey ......... Feb. 24, 1945 Colombia ....... Dec. 22, 1943 Egypt .......... Feb. 27, 1945 Liberia ........ Feb. 26, 1944 Saudi Arabia ... Mar. 1, 1945 France ......... Dec. 26, 1944