A year ago today the Prime Minister of Great Britain and I, as representatives of two free
nations, set down and subscribed to a declaration of principles common to our peoples. We based,
and continue to base, our hopes for a better future for the world on the realization 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 bare 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 complete ^ [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
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