Who are the United Nations?
THE UNITED NATIONS are an association of independent and sovereign peoples and governments, brought together by a common aim: to overcome the greatest threat in history to their individual freedom as nations and to the freedom of all mankind. Thus, principally, the United Nations are a fighting team. But, beyond victory on the battlefronts of to day, the United Nations have a second great aim: to preserve the peace they are now fighting to win, and to solve problems such as those which led to the present war and the one that began in 1914. Thus, in the long view, the United Nations are also a working team, for the purpose of developing a more stable world, organised for the maintenance of peace and security. Because victory over the Axis nations must be attained before all the more far reaching problems of peace can be dealt with, the basic United Nations team consists of those actually at war. In the early stages this fighting team, though not then known as the United Nations, consist
