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Winston Churchill speaking in Zurich on the United States of Europe

by Winston Churchill

Zurich (Switzerland) | 19 September 1946

I wish to speak to you today about the tragedy of Europe.
This noble continent, comprising on the whole the fairest and the most cultivated regions of the earth; enjoying a temperate and equable climate, is the home of all the great parent races of the western world. It is the fountain (...)

Fulton Speech on the ’Iron Curtain’

by Winston Churchill

5 March 1946

‘The Sinews of Peace’
President McCluer, ladies and gentlemen, and last but certainly not least, the President of the United States of America:
I am very glad indeed to come to Westminster College this afternoon, and I am complimented that you should give me a degree from an institution (...)

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

by Harry S. Truman

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 6 August 1945

Press release by the White House, August 6, 1945

Charter of the United Nations

San Francisco (USA) | 26 June 1945

PREAMBLE
We the Peoples of the United Nations Determined
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal (...)

The Atlantic Charter

by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill

14 August 1941

"The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing H.M. Government in the United Kingdom, have met at sea. They have been accompanied by officials of their two Governments, including high-ranking officers of their military, naval and air services.
The (...)

The Four Freedoms Speech

by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 6 January 1941

1941 State of the union adress
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress:
I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word “unprecedented” because at no previous time has American security been as (...)

Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Points Speech

by Woodrow Wilson

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 8 January 1918

The program of the world’s peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, all we see it, is this:
1. Open covenants of peace must be arrived at, after which there will surely be no private international action or rulings of any kind, but diplomacy (...)

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