FOUR POWER DECLARATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1943, Page 4

FOUR POWER DECLARATION

United Action Pledged ORGANISATION AFTER THE WAR INTERNATIONAL BODY ESSENTIAL (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, November 1. The four Power declaration on general security agreed to at the Moscow Conference pledges united action after the war for the organisation and maintenance of peace and security and recognises the necessity, of an international organisation open to equal membership of all sovereign, peace-loving States. The text is: “ The United States, Britain, Russia and China, united in their determination in accordance with the declaration by the United Nations’on January 1, 1942, and subsequent declarations to continue hostilities against those Axis Powers with which they are respectively 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 people allied to.them from the menace of aggression: recognising the necessity of ensuring a rapid and orderly transit from war to peace and establishing and maintaining international peace ail'd security with the least diversion of the world’s human and economic resources for armaments: jointly declare “Firstly, their united action pledged for the prosecution of the war against their respective enemies will be continued for the organisation and maintenance of peace and security. Secondly, those of them at war with a common enemy will act together in all matters relating to the surrender and disarmament of the enemy. Thirdly, they will take all measures deemed by them necessary to provide against any violation of the terms imposed on the enemy. Fourthly, they, will recognise the necessity, of establishing the earliest possible date for a general international organisation based on the principle of sovereign equality for all peaceloving States and opeii membership by all such States, large or small, for the maintenance of international peace and security. , Fifthly, fbr the purpose of maintaining international peace and security, pending the re-establishment of law and ordei and the inauguration of a system of general security, they will consult with one another and as the occasion requires, with the other members of the United Nations with a view to joint action on behalf of the community. Sixthly, after the termination of hostilities they will not employ their military forces within the territories of other States except for purposes envisaged in this declaration and after joint consultation. . Seventhly, they will confer and co-operate with one another and other members of the United Nations to bring about a practicable general agreement in respect to the regulation of armaments in the post-war period.”