Evening star., 1942-09-01

Emphasizes Cause Of
The Thousond Million
Opposed to Axis
By BLAIR BOLLES.
The Office of War Information
today marked the third anniversary
of the war by issuing a 45-pase
pamphlet examining the joint hopes
and common aspiration of the whole
set of United Nations which, one
by one, have come to range them
selves against the German ambition
as result Of the deed of Septem-
ber l, 1939-the Nazi invasion of
Poland.
Because billion men and women
live in the countries of the United
Nations, the owl calls It's pamphlet
The Thousand Million" Since the
work was written, Brazil with its
5000 600 population has joined the
Allied cause, bringing the United
Nations to 28. The pamphlet is a
compendium of brief stories about
each Of the n nations that led Brazil
into the Allied ranks.
The thousand million" write the
anonymous authors at the owl.
live in tropic Caribbean ports; in
Chinese mountain villages, in Brit
aims seaswept countryside. and in
the incredible vastness of Russia.
They live in the darkened streets of
Dutch and Polish, Czech and Bel
gian towns, where the invaders SEN
try hammers at the door.
Share Common Destiny
To-day 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.
Our destiny Is bound together by
the Declaration by United Nations
signed at Washington on New Year
Day, 1942 We are determined to
win this war with the overwhelming
might OF our combined strength
and thereafter to establish q new
age Of freedom for ali men on this
earth"
The pamphlets emphasis lies on
the tie that binds US all together in
the most extensive alliance in the
worlds history. The booklet was
especially prepared for the use of
writer's and speakers to enable them
better to acquaint the United States
with the brother United Nations.
Copies may be obtained from the
Office of War Information, Wash
ington, D. c.
The pamphlet reprints the text OF
the Atlantic Charter, the text OF the
Declaration by United Nations, and
lists the United Nations. In alpha
betical order are short articles on
the different Allies. beginning with
Australia, closing with Yugoslavia.
In publishing the pamphlet, the
owl commented that "a better
knowledge Of what our friends and
brothers-in-arms are doing, what
they have suffered and what they
are like will help them and us. not
only now but in the days following
victory. Through greater under
standing, greater strenth i.
achieved"
Illustrated BY Woodcuts.
| Woodcut illustrations dot the pam.
phlet's pages. A two-page worlc
map. shows the location Of the
United Nations, scattered in 4 dou-
BILE belt around the world--now
reaching from Brazil to Canada ant
from the Union of South Africa tt
Norway. from the Philippines t,
Great Britain, from Great Britain
to New Zealand and China.
The pamphlet deals generousl!
with the problems in political dis
cussion which are bound to confron
the person writing about the variou
countries in the great alliance.
gives all the credit possible, for in
stance, to the Soviets who provided
4 sort of blood TRANSMISSION that re
vitalized the great combine of peo
pies that make up Russia, but 1t re
marks that Americans know tn
Communist system. and they do no
want it for themselves"
The intricacies OF the Indiar
question are not investigated bu
the pamphlet, in 4 short article
presents the pertinent facts-Brit
ish rule. Congress party, Moslen
League, Cripps mission-and lets tn
reader ponder what Is best
India has made gallant contribu
tions to the war not only In man
power and raw materials. but alst
in the field OF industry" tn
pamphlet says, and that represent
the matter stressed for each countr,
what it is doing to push ahead th'
war.
One Road 10 Freedom.
The Introductory essay says II
part:
Victory will be won-and victor.
will be preserved afterward-only b.
strength of United Nations arms an,
the f1ghting spirit of the THOUSAND
million.
There is no other road to free
dom. We can none OF us travel
alone. We must all travel 1t to
gether. We must save our friend
II we would save our own. 1t
from foreign shores that the tyrant
strike their blows at us, and 1t
on those shores that we are strikin
back
The people Of the United Nation
do not underestimate the size {
the task that lies ahead. Nor ar
they dismayed by 1t. Today thei
battle fronts are Joined all over tn
planet, and their home fronts ar
making the combat weapons tn