The governments of the United States of America, United
Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China;
United in their determination, in accordance with the
declaration by the United Nations of January, 1942, and
subsequent declarations, to continue hostilities against those
Axis powers with which they respectively are at war until such
powers have laid down their arms on the basis of unconditional
surrender;
Conscious of their responsibility to secure the
liberation of themselves and the peoples allied with them from
the menace of aggression;
Recognizing the necessity of insuring a rapid and orderly
transition from war to peace and of establishing and
maintaining international peace and security with the least
diversion of the world's human and economic resources for
armaments;
Jointly declare:
1. That their united action, pledged for the prosecution
of the war against their respective enemies, will be continued
for the organization and maintenance of peace and security.
2. That those of them at war with a common enemy will act
together in all matters relating to the surrender and
disarmament of that enemy.
3. That they will take all measures deemed by them to be
necessary to provide against any violation of the terms
imposed upon the enemy.
4. That they recognize the necessity of establishing at
the earliest practicable date a general international
organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality
of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such
states, large and small, for the maintenance of international
peace and security.
5. That for the purpose of maintaining international
peace and security pending the re-establishment of law and
order and the inauguration of a system of general security
they will consult with one another and as occasion requires
with other members of the United Nations, with a view to joint
action on behalf of the community of nations.
6. That after the termination of hostilities they will
not employ their military forces within the territories of
other states except for the purposes envisaged in this
declaration and after joint consultation.
7. That they will confer and cooperate with one another
and with other members of the United Nations to bring about a
practicable general agreement with respect to the regulation
of armaments in the post-war period.
DECLARATION REGARDING ITALY
The Foreign Secretaries of the United States, the United
Kingdom and the Soviet Union have established that their three
governments are in complete agreement that Allied policy
toward Italy must be based upon the fundamental principle that
Fascism and all its evil influence and configuration shall be
completely destroyed and that the Italian people shall be
given every opportunity to establish governmental and other
institutions based on democratic principles.
The Foreign Secretaries of the United States and the
United Kingdom declare that the action of their governments
form the inception of the invasion of Italian territory, in so
far as paramount military requirements have permitted, has
been based upon this policy.
In furtherance of this policy in the future the Foreign
Secretaries of the three governments are agreed that the
following measures are important and should be put into
effect:
1. It is essential that the Italian Government should be
made more democratic by inclusion of representatives of those
sections of the Italian people who have always opposed
Fascism.
2. Freedom of speech, of religious worship, of political
belief, of press and of public meeting, shall be restored in
full measure to the Italian people, who shall be entitled to
form anti-Fascist political groups.
3. All institutions and organizations created by the
Fascist regime shall be suppressed.
4. All Fascist or pro-Fascist elements shall be removed
from the administration and from institutions and
organizations of a public character.
5. All political prisoners of the Fascist regime shall be
released and accorded full amnesty.
6. Democratic organs of local government shall be
created.
7. Fascist chiefs and army generals known or suspected to
be war criminals shall be arrested and handed over to justice.
In making this declaration the three Foreign Secretaries
recognize that so long as active military operations continue
in Italy the time at which it is possible to give full effect
to the principles stated above will be determined by the
Commander-in-Chief on the basis of instructions received
through the combined chiefs of staff.
The three governments, parties to this declaration, will,
at the request of any one of them, consult on this matter. It
is further understood that nothing in this resolution is to
operate against the right of the Italian people ultimately to
choose their own form of government.
DECLARATION ON AUSTRIA
The governments of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union
and the United States of America are agreed that Austria, the
first free country to fall a victim to Hitlerite aggression,
shall be liberated from German domination.
They regard the annexation imposed on Austria by Germany
on March 15, 1938, as null and void. They consider themselves
as in no way bound by any charges effected in Austria since
that date. They declare that they wish to see re-established
a free and independent Austria and thereby to open the way for
the Austrian people themselves, as well as those neighboring
States which will be face with similar problems, to find that
political and economic security which is the only basis for
lasting peace.
Austria is reminded, however that she has a
responsibility, which she cannot evade, for participation in
the war at the side of Hitlerite Germany, and that in the
final settlement account will inevitably be taken of her own
contribution to her liberation.
STATEMENT ON ATROCITIES
Signed by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Premier Stalin.
The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet
Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities,
massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being
perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they
have overrun and from which they are now being steadily
expelled. The brutalities of Nazi domination are no new
thing, and all peoples or territories in their grip have
suffered from the worst form of government by terror. What is
new is that many of the territories are now being redeemed by
the advancing armies of the advancing armies of the liberating
powers, and that in their desperation the recoiling Hitlerites
and Huns are redoubling their ruthless cruelties. This is now
evidenced with particular clearness by monstrous crimes on the
territory of the Soviet Union which is being liberated from
Hitlerites, and on French and Italian territory.
Accordingly, the aforesaid three Allied powers, speaking
in the interest of the thirty-two United Nations, hereby
solemnly declare and give full warning of their declaration as
follows:
At the time of granting of any armistice to any
government which may be set up in Germany, those German
officers and men and members of the Nazi party who have been
responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above
atrocities, massacres and executions will be sent back to the
countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order
that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of
these liberated countries and of free governments which will
be erected therein. Lists will be compiled in all possible
detail from all these countries having regard especially to
invaded parts of the Soviet Union, to Poland and
Czechoslovakia, to Yugoslavia and Greece including Crete and
other islands, to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg, France and Italy.
Thus, Germans who take part in wholesale shooting of
Polish officers or in the execution of French, Dutch, Belgian
or Norwegian hostages of Cretan peasants, or who have shared
in slaughters inflicted on the people of Poland or in
territories of the Soviet Union which are now being swept
clear of the enemy, will know they will be brought back to the
scene of their crimes and judged on the spot by the peoples
whom they have outraged.
Let those who have hitherto not imbued their hands with
innocent blood beware lest they join the ranks of the guilty,
for most assuredly the three Allied powers will pursue them to
the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their
accusors in order that justice may be done.
The above declaration is without prejudice to the case of
German criminals whose offenses have no particular
geographical localization and who will be punished by joint
decision of the government of the Allies.
