--- title: Declaration by United Nations url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/declaration-by-united-nations-1942/ description: 'Wide sheet headed ''Declaration by United Nations'': the typed text of the 1 January 1942 joint declaration on the left.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Declaration by United Nations [![Declaration by United Nations, 1942 Transnational poster: Wide sheet headed 'Declaration by United Nations': the typed text](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/declaration-by-united-nations-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/declaration-by-united-nations-1942.jpg) # Declaration by United Nations Wide sheet headed 'Declaration by United Nations': the typed text of the 1 January 1942 joint declaration on the left, with the handwritten signatures of the signatory governments in facsimile across the right. The tell for bandwagon is the long visible list of signing nations and signatures, presenting the cause as broadly joined. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` DECLARATION BY UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION BY UNITED NATIONS: 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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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. [handwritten:] Done at Washington January First, 1942. [signatures, handwritten facsimile:] The United States of America by Franklin D Roosevelt; The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland by Winston S. Churchill; on behalf of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Maxim Litvinoff, Ambassador; National Government of the Republic of China, Tsung-ning [illegible], Minister for Foreign Affairs; The Commonwealth of Australia by R. G. Casey; The Kingdom of Belgium by Pelt [illegible]; Canada by Leighton McCarthy; The Republic of Costa Rica by [illegible]; The Republic of Cuba by Aurelio F. Concheso; Czechoslovak Republic by V. S. Hurban; The Dominican Republic by J. M. Troncoso; The Republic of El Salvador by [illegible]; The Kingdom of Greece by Cimon G. Diamantopoulos; The Republic of Guatemala by Enrique Lopez Herrarte; La Republique d'Haiti par Fernand Dennis; The Republic of Honduras by Julian R. Caceres; India by Girja Shankar Bajpai; The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by Hugues Le Gallais; The Kingdom of the Netherlands [illegible], signed on behalf of the Govt of the Dominion of New Zealand by Frank Langstone; The Republic of Nicaragua by Leon DeBayle; The Kingdom of Norway by W. Munthe Morgenstierne; The Republic of Panama by Ala Auden [illegible]; The Republic of Poland by Jan Ciechanowski; The Union of South Africa by Ralph W. Close; The Kingdom of Yugoslavia by Constantin A. Fotitch. [signature readings approximate] Mexico and the Philippines also signed papers of accession at a later date. UNITED NATIONS WEEK JANUARY 14-20. [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 -O- 460991 ``` [← Daitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daitoa-news-american-war-losses-1942/) [Der Untermensch (SS Main Office brochure, cover) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-untermensch-ss-hauptamt-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" 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