UNCONQUERED ALLIES Pi BELGIUM CZECHOSLOVAKIA F
TEN UNCONQUERED ALLIES Pi BELGIUM CZECHOSLOVAKIA f ..... FRANCE GREECE LUXEMBOURG i THE NETHERLANDS NORWAY THE PHILIPPINES POLAND YUGOSLAVIA Au.gust 15, 1943 Prepared by the " UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION OFFICE 610 Fifth Avenue, New York In co-operation with the national information services of the countries concerned. The United Nations Information Office is an agency of: The governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Greece, India, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia; the Danish Legation and the French National Committee; and the government of the United States of America. ! Foreword t "The friend of victory will build bridges, and not dig ditches, between those who are fighting with him on the same side." --Ralph Barton Perry, Our Side Is Right. WHY THESE TEN ALLIES AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS ARE So IMPORTANT t Of the United Nations who are fighting today against the Axis, ten are victims of occupation. As before the war--and as throughout their countries' histories--these ten t Allies and their Governments represent .different races, different languages, dif- ferent customs, and different traditions. But their importance as a group in the United Nations effort is distinguished by these facts: 1. Although deprived of their homelands they fight on by our side. 2. As the legal representatives of occupied countries these ten Allies and their Governments are waging war behind the enemy lines in addition to their military contributions to the Allied armies fighting in the open. They are links to a vast underground force whose strength is difficult to measure, but which is of vast importance to the Allied cause now and will be vital at the time of invasion.
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