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Mutual respect and honest conduct between nations is our chief desire. We are determined to work with all peace-loving peoples in order that tyranny and aggression shall be removed or, if need be, struck down wherever it raises its head. The peoples o! the British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations willingly make their sacrifices to the common cause. _We seek no advantages for ourselves at the cost of others. We desire the welfare and social advance of all nations and that they may help each other to better and broader days. We affirm that after the war a World Organization to maintain peace and security should be set up and endowed with the necessary power and authority to prevent aggression and violence. In a world torn by strife, we have met here in unity. That unity finds its strength not in any formal bond, but in the hidden springs from which human action flows. We rejoice in our inheritance of loyalties and ideals, and proclaim our sense of kinship to one another. Our system of free association lias enabled us, each and all, to claim a full share of the common burden. Although spread across the globe, we have stood together through the stresses of two World Wars, and have been welded the stronger thereby. We believe that when victory is won and peace returns, this same free association, this inherent unity of purpose, will make us able to do further sex*vice to mankind. (Signed) Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (Signed) W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. (Signed) John Cubtin, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. (Signed) Peter Eraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand. (Signed) J. C. Smuts, F.M., Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. 16th May, 1944.

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