A year ago today the Prime Minister of Great Britain ^[you] and I, as representatives of
two free nations, set down and subscribed to a declaration of principles commom  to our peoples.
We based, and continue to base, our hopes for a better future for the world on the realiztion of
these principles. This declaration is known as the Atlantic Charter.
     A year ago today the nations resisting a common, barbaric foe were units or small groups,
fighting for their existence.
     Now, these nations and groups of nations in all the continents of the earth have united.
They have formed a great union of humanity, dedicated to the realization of that common
program of purposes and principles set forth in the Atlantic Charter, through world wide victory
over their common enemies. Their faith in life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and in
the preservation of human rights and Justice in their own lands as well as in other lands, has been
given form and substance and power through a great gathering of peoples now known as the
United Nations.
     Freedom and independence are today in jeopardy-- the world over. If the forces of
conquest are not successfully resisted and defeated there will be no freedom and. no independence
and no opportunity for freedom for any nation.
     It is, therefore, to the single and supreme objective of defeating the Axis forces of
aggression that the United Nations have pledged all their resources and efforts.