Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security In the section
Joint Four-Nation Declaration, the governments of the United States of America, United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and
China, in accordance with the
declaration by United Nations of January 1942, and subsequent declarations, agree 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. They also recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization (the United Nations), 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.
Declaration on Italy In the Declaration on Italy, the foreign secretaries of the US, UK and USSR declared that
fascism and its influence should be completely destroyed and that the Italian people should be given every opportunity to establish governmental and other institutions based on democratic principles.
Declaration on Austria In the Declaration on Austria, the Foreign Secretaries of US, UK and USSR declared that the annexation (
Anschluss) of Austria by
Germany was null and void. It called for the establishment of a free Austria after the victory over
Nazi Germany.
Declaration on Atrocities The Declaration on Atrocities was signed by the U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier
Joseph Stalin. They noted that "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". They went on to state that Germans would be sent back to the countries where they had committed their crimes and "
judged on the spot by the peoples whom they have outraged". As for those Germans whose criminal offenses had no particular geographical localization, they would be punished by joint decision of the governments of the Allies. The
Statement on Atrocities was largely drafted by Winston Churchill, and led to the setting up of the
European Advisory Commission which drafted the
London Charter. == See also ==