The thousand million [electronic resource]: brief stories about the United Nations where live, work, and fight one thousand million friends of the United States / prepared by the staff of the Office of War Information.

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Title	The thousand million [electronic resource]: brief stories about the United Nations where live, work, and fight one thousand million friends of the United States / prepared by the staff of the Office of War Information.
Item Number	p0059
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Office of War Information.
Government Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1942
Physical Description	vi, 45 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes	This pamphlet has been prepared by the staff of the Office of War Information to provide background material on the 27 United Nations at war, with the United States, against the Axis. The contents may be quoted with or without acknowledgment. The material in the stories has been carefully checked and approved by the embassies and legations concerned.--[ii].; Title from cover.
Table of Contents	The Atlantic Charter -- Declaration by United Nations -- The Thousand Million -- Australia -- Belgium -- Canada -- China -- Costa Rica -- Cuba -- Czechoslovakia -- Dominican Republic -- Greece -- Guatemala -- Haiti -- Honduras -- India -- Luxembourg -- Mexico -- The Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Norway -- Panama -- The Philippines -- Poland -- El Salvador -- South Africa -- The Soviet Union -- The United Kingdom -- Yugoslavia.
Summary	These are the lands of the thousand million -- and more -- our allies and our friends. The purpose of the articles that follow is to tell, in a few words, something about the thousand million and their 27 countries, pledged with us to fight in a great alliance against the Axis on all the continents and in all the seas. The thousand million live in tropic Caribbean ports; in Chinese mountain villages; in Britain's seaswept countryside and in the incredible vastness of Russia. They live in darkened streets of Dutch and Polish, Czech and Belgian towns where the invader's sentry hammers at the door. Today they share the common destiny of the people who live all over America -- in Concord or near Louisville, east of Wyoming or west of Santa Fe. Their roll is long... [f]rom Norway to New Zealand they stretch across the world. Our destiny is bound together by the Declaration of the United Nations signed at Washington on New Year's Day, 1942. We are determined to win this war with the overwhelming might of our combined strength -- and thereafter to establish a new age of freedom for all men on this earth. The world already knows the men of these United Nations: The Anzacs -- Australians and New Zealanders -- who go into fire and havoc singing: 'Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, you'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.' Cossacks from the Don and young Red Army tank turret gunners who have met and smashed the best the Nazi Wehrmacht could offer. Soldiers of China who after 5 years in the blaze and darkness of war remain unconquered because they will not be conquered. The Dutch of Rotterdam and Java who lacked all things but valor. Canadians from the Airdrome of Democracy. Bearded Sikhs of India who have fought their way over the top of Africa and through half the jungles of the East. The Poles and Czechs who crossed the wreck of Europe to fight again in spite of Hell and Himmler. Euzones -- men of Greece -- who stood and died on hills where sunlight catches marble columns known to Greeks who 25 centuries ago created their unalterable dream of liberty. Norwegians who took death for tribute in Trondheim fiord, South Africans who taught the world what 'Commando' means. Chetniks of Yugoslavia's undefeatable mountain battalions. Add also Filipinos, and Americans from New Mexico ranches and Ohio river towns, Missourians, Texans, Californians, men of Kentucky, Wisconsin, Lincoln's Illinois, who have given immortality to words: Wake, Bataan, Corregidor. And Britons who on the cobbled streets of Calais and after Dunkirk's beach faced alone the Fascists of the Western World. These are only a few. There are many more, and they are not all soldiers or airmen. There are also the people of the invaded countries who by torches, fires, and codes guide the United Nations fliers on their bombing raids to the enemy's farthest arsenals. There are the men and women of the United Nations who have gone about their customary occupations while havoc burst around them. There are the stokers in the holds of cargo ships who have seen death as a familiar and gone back to face him again. There are the thousands who in forge and field, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, provide the sinews of victory. Victory for the United Nations cannot be won by resistance alone. We know it cannot be won by the quaking dream of isolation. We know it cannot be won by proudly licking our wounds. Victory will be won -- and victory will be preserved afterward -- only by strength of United Nations arms and the fighting spirit of the thousand million.--p. 1.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945. Alliances. Civilization. Geography. Politics, Practical. Economic conditions.
Geographic Terms	United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
Gov Doc Classification	PR 32.5002:UN 3/1-2
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	p0059.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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