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title: Charter of the United Nations, 1945
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description: Grey-violet poster headed 'United Nations' with a photographic reproduction of the Charter's opening page, signature pages and certificate.
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# Charter of the United Nations, 1945

Grey-violet poster headed 'United Nations' with a photographic reproduction of the Charter's opening page, signature pages and certificate. The technique is faint: the facsimile of signed documents and the seal lends the authority of the originals to the organisation, a transfer; the caption describes it as a reproduction.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
UNITED NATIONS
Charter of The United Nations
1945

FIRST PAGES OF SIGNATURES
For China:
Pour la Chine:
中國:
За Китай:
Por la China:
[signatures in Chinese characters]
For the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
Pour l'Union des Républiques Soviétiques Socialistes:
蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯邦:
За Союз Советских Социалистических Республик:
Por la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas:
[signatures: illegible]

FIRST PAGE OF CHARTER
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life-time has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS.
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

LAST PAGE OF CHARTER
For Yugoslavia:
Pour la Yougoslavie:
南斯拉夫:
За Югославию:
Por Yugoslavia:
[signature: Stanoje Simić]
I Certify That the foregoing is a true copy of the Charter of the United Nations, with the Statute of the International Court of Justice annexed thereto, signed in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 1945, in the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish languages, the signed original of which is deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America.
In Testimony Whereof, I, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by an Assistant Chief, Division of Central Services of the said Department, at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, this twenty-[handwritten, illegible] day of June 1945.
[signature:] E. R. Stettinius Jr.
Secretary of State
[signature:] M. L. Kentstrick [reading uncertain]
Assistant Chief, Division of Central Services

FIRST PAGES OF SIGNATURES
For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Pour le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord:
大不列顛及北愛爾蘭聯合王國:
За Соединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии:
Por el Reino Unido de la Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte:
[signatures:] Halifax, Cranborne
For the United States of America:
Pour les États-Unis d'Amérique:
美利堅合衆國:
За Соединенные Штаты Америки:
Por los Estados Unidos de América:
[signatures:] E. R. Stettinius Jr., Cordell Hull, Tom Connally, A. H. Vandenberg, Sol Bloom, Charles A. Eaton, Harold E. Stassen, Virginia C. Gildersleeve
For France:
Pour la France:
法蘭西:
За Францию:
Por Francia:
[signature:] J. Paul-Boncour

REPRODUCTION of the opening page, giving the text of the preamble, the first five signatures, the last page and the certificate appended to the duplicate copies—of the Charter of the United Nations signed in San Francisco on June 26th, 1945.

Issued by
UNITED NATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
[imprint: small printer's mark at lower right, illegible]
```

Chinese-character and some Cyrillic signature blocks are handwritten facsimiles and are not transcribed; the Chinese country-name lines are read from small print and may contain errors.

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