EPOCH-MAKING PLEDGE AT SEA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 15 August 1941, Page 5

EPOCH-MAKING PLEDGE AT SEA

COMMON PEACE AIMS DEFINED RESISTANCE TO FORCES OF AGGRESSION RIGHTS OF FREEDOM FOR ALL NATIONS (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, this clay.. _ An official statement tvas issued last night by the British Government to the New Zealand Government on the meeting ol the British Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, and the President of the United States of America, Mr. Franklin I). Roosevelt at sea. The statement says: “The President of the United States and the Prime Minister. Miv Churchill, the-latter representing His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, have met at sea. They have been accompanied by officials of their two Governments, including high-ranking officers of their military, naval and air services. “The whole problem of the supply of munitions of war, as provided in the Leasc-Lcnd Act, for the armed forces of the United Kingdom and for those countries actively engaged m resisting aggression has been further examined.

“Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of Supply in the British Government, has joined in the conferences. He is going to proceed to Washington to discuss further details with appropriate officials of the United Stdtes Government. These conferences will also cover the supply problem of the Soviet Union. “The President and the Prime Minister have had several conferences. They have considered the' dangers to world civilisation arising from the policy of military domination by conquest upon which the Hitlerite Government of Germany, and other Governments associated therewith, have embarked, and have made clear the steps which their countries are respectively taking for their safety in the face of these dangers. They have agreed upon the.following joint declaration: Seek No Aggrandisement “ ‘The President of the United States and Mr. Churchill representing His Majesty’s Government, being met together, deemed it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hope for a better future for the world. “ ‘ (1) Their countries seek no aggrandisement, territorial or Other. “ ‘(2) They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely-expressed wishes of the peoples' concerned. “ ‘ (3) They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live, and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them. . “‘(4) They will endeavour, with due respeef for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victorious or vanquished, of access on equal terms to trade and to raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity. Economic and Social Security “ ‘ (5) They desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field witth the object of securing for all improved standards of labour, economic, advancement and social security. “ ‘(6) After the final destruction of Nazi tyranny they hope to see established a peace which will afford all nations the. means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries and which will afford an assurance that all men in all lands, may live out their lives in freedom from fear and war. “ ‘ (7) Such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans Avithout hindrance. “ ‘(8) They believe that all of the nations of the Avorld, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to abandon the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea or air armament continues to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and more permanent system of general security. That the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practical measures Avhich will lighten for peace loving peoples the crushing burden /'of armament.’ ”