Congress of the United States considers it imperative that the President, immediately or without undue delay, enter into binding agreements on behalf of the United States with the several United Nations and other members of the community of sovereign nations, designed to secure and maintain law, order, and peace among the nations so covenanted; such agreements to provide also (1) for the use of judicial, arbitral, or other agencies sufficiently empowered to decide controversies between nations upon the petition of any signatory to such agreement or of a soverign member of the community of nations, and (2) for appropriate measures to prevent any threatened breach of world peace through the refusal of any nation to submit its controversy to such agency for decision and its resort instead to measures of violence and war.

TEXT OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 91

(As introduced by Mr. Ludlow on March 8, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

JOINT RESOLUTION To create a Committee on Peace Aims

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a Committee on Peace Aims is hereby created, to be composed as follows: Three Members of the Senate to be chosen by the Vice President, three Members of the House to be chosen by the Speaker, and six members at large to be chosen by the President. Of the six members to be chosen by the President, one shall be a woman, one shall be a representative of labor, one shall be a representative of the Federal Council of Churches in America, one shall be a representative of the Catholic churches in America, one shall be a representative of the Jewish religion, and the other shall be a repre sentative of the State Department trained in the field of foreign service.

SEC. 2. This committee shall prepare a clear, definite statement of what the United Nations are fighting for and the peace aims which they will faithfully execute when victory comes to Allied arms.

SEC. 3. When this statement is completed the Secretary of State shall transmit the text thereof to the Governments of Great Britain and British Dominions, Russia, and China. If those Governments consent to become signatories no further negotiations will be required and the statement will be regarded as a finished document expressing the views and purposes of all of the United Nations. The statement shall also be submitted to friendly governments under Axis subjugation whose adherence may be desired.

SEC. 4. If any one of the United Nations dissents to the statement or any of its provisions, the President shall invite the governments of the United Nations to send delegates to a conference to be held in the city of Washington to compose existing differences and agree on a modified statement which all can sign.

SEC. 5. When the statement is completed and approved it shall be promulgated as an official declaration stating the United Nations' peace aims, and copies of it shall be widely distributed throughout the world.

TEXT OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 93

(As introduced by Mr. Fish on March 10, 1943, and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs)

JOINT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the United States hereby endorses the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain on August 14, 1941, as follows:

The President of the United States and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national

policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world.

First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other.

Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned.

Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.

Fourth, they will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further enjoyment by all states, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity.

Fifth, they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field, with the object of securing for all improved labor standards, economic advancement, and social security.

Sixth, after the final destruction of Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want.

Seventh, such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance.

Eighth, they believe all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea, or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armament.

TEXT OF HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 146

(As introduced by Mr. Kee on July 2, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the making without avoidable delay of agreements between the United States and the several United Nations to secure and maintain law, order, and peace among the nations of the world

Resolved by the Senate and House of Repesentatives of the United States America in Congress assembled, That in order to secure and preserve to the world a just and lasting peace among the nations thereof, as well as to-safeguard the United States and other members of the United Nations against violation of their sovereignties or territorial boundaries by the methods of war, the Congress of the United States hereby authorizes the making, without avoidable delay, between the United States and the several United Nations and such other sovereign nations as may hereafter with the consent of the United Nations become associated therewith, of agreements designed to secure and maintain law, order, and peace among the nations of the world and to establish machinery adequate to effect that purpose; such agreements to provide also (1) for the establishment and maintenance of an international judicial, arbitral, or other agency sufficiently empowered to decide controversies between nations upon the petition of any signatory to such agreement or of a sovereign member of the community of nations; (2) for appropriate measures to prevent any threatened breach of world peace through the refusal of any nation to submit its controversy to such agency for decision and its resort instead to measures of violence and war; and (3) for vesting the said agency with the authority and providing it with means and instrumentalities adequate for the enforcement of its orders, decrees, and awards: Provided, however, That no agreement made under authority of this resolution shall have force or effect until the same is submitted to the Congress and approved thereby through the medium of a joint resolution adopted for that purpose.

TEXT OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 5

(As submitted by Mr. Randolph (by request) on January 7, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress respectfully requests the President to invite foreign governments to send representatives to attend an international constitution convention charged with the duty of drafting a constitution which shall provide—

(1) For an international government;

(2) For participation by all nations desiring so to do;

(3) For an International Administrative Board consisting of fifteen men ; (4) For an International Supreme Court;

(5) For an International Congress consisting of Senators from each participating nation;

(6) For free religion;

(7) For free press;

(8) For free speech;

(9) For free assembly;

(10) For retention by all nations of the right to maintain the form of internal government desired by each;

(11) For the abolition of all armaments by all nations; except an international police force under the control of the international government;

(12) For complete control by the international government of all international questions and relationships;

(13) For a program designed to raise the economic condition, living standards, wages, and so forth, of all people;

(14) For a program of improved international trade relations;

(15) For a program of international social improvement;

(16) For a program of international educational improvement; and

(17) For machinery to amend the constitution when found necessary.

TEXT OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 14

(As submitted by Mr. Merrow on March 12, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the President accurately stated the principles in the national policy of the United States in the joint declaration of the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dated August 14, 1941, known as the Atlantic Charter, which principles are applicable on a world-wide basis and are as follows:

"First. Their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other;

"Second. They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned;

"Third. They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and selfgovernment restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;

"Fourth. They will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great and small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity;

"Fifth. They desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic advancement, and social security;

"Sixth. After the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety

within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; "Seventh. Such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance; and

"Eighth. They believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea, or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments." It is further the sense of the Congress that the United States has an obligation and a responsibility to work with other nations to bring about a world understanding and cooperative spirit which will have for its supreme objective the continued maintenance of peace and that, in order to fulfill such obligation and responsibility, the United States must formally pledge to assume its full share of international responsibilities after the war is over and to participate in the formation of an international organization designed to prevent future wars. It is also the sense of the Congress that the Congress, as the representative body of the people of the United States, should definitely and definitively act at such time as may be best advisable to extend, particularize, and itemize the bases on which lasting peace proposals may be formulated and made durable.

TEXT OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 24

(As submitted by Mr. Fulbright on June 9, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to prevent future aggression and to maintain law, order, and lasting peace, and as favoring participation by the United States therein.

TEXT OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25

(As submitted by Mr. Fulbright on June 15, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace, among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein.

TEXT OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25

(As amended by the Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 20, 1943, passed the House of Representatives on September 21, 1943; introduced in the Senate on September 24, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace, among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein through its constitutional processes.

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TEXT OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 138

(As submitted by Mr. Fish on February 25, 1943, and referred to the Committee on Rules)

RESOLUTION

Resolved, That there is hereby established

(a) A special committee to be known as the Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (hereinafter referred to as the "special committee”).

(b) The special committee shall be composed of nine Members of the House of Representatives, five from the majority and four from the minority, appointed by the Speaker of the House.

(c) It shall be the duty of the special committee to investigate all matters relating to post-war economic policy, planning, and problems; to promote a policy of abundance and employment; to turn our war industries into producing useful peacetime products; to plan employment of our demobilized veterans; to gather information and suggestions from informed sources with respect to such problems; to study the plans and suggestions received; to report to the Congress from time to time the results of findings made and conclusions reached. It is the sense and purpose of this resolution to make accessible to the Congress, through the special committee, the most complete information respecting post-war economic policy and post-war problems that is available, to the end that Congress may be advised respecting those problems and in a position to formulate solutions with respect to them which will result in the greatest contribution by the Congress to achievement of a stable economy, employment, prosperity, and a just peace. It is intended that full authority to accomplish this general purpose shall be granted by this resolution.

HEARING; SUBPENAS; DISBURSEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 2. The special committee, or any subcommittee thereof, shall have power to hold hearings and to sit and act at such places and times, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. Subpenas shall be issued under the signature of the chairman of said committee, and shall be served by any person designated by him. Amounts appropriated for the expenses of the committee shall be disbursed by the chairman.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; APPOINTMENT AND COMPENSATION

SEC. 3. The special committee shall have power to employ and fix the compensation of such officers, experts, and employees as it deems necessary for the performnce of its duties, but the compensation so fixed shall not exceed the compensation fixed under sections 661-663, 664-673, and 674 of title 5 of the United States Code for comparable duties. Officers and employees of the Government shall be detailed to the service of the special committee on its request, without additional compensation, and such officers and employees shall be paid from the appropriations regularly available for their salaries.

TEXT OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 200

(As submitted by Mr. Fulbright on April 5, 1943, and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs)

RESOLUTION

Resolved, That the House of Representatives hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to prevent future aggression and to maintain lasting peace, and as favoring participation by the United States therein.