The XXth Century, Shanghai, 1941-1945: A Guide

DOCUMENTS

Volume I

OCTOBER/1941, pages 72-80

1. The German-Soviet War
Speeches by Hitler, Molotov, Stalin
Polish-Soviet Pact
Anglo-Soviet Pact
Churchill-Roosevelt Letter to Stalin
2. The Pacific
Vichy Statement and Franco-Japanese Agreement on French Indo-China
Freezing Order in USA
Netherlands East Indies Statement
3. Petain Radio Speech

NOVEMBER/1941, pages 154-160

1. The German-Soviet War
Speeches by Churchill
Speech by Hitler: Finnish Answer to Great Britain
Turkish Statement
2. Position of the USA
The Eight Points
Roosevelt's "Shoot First" Order

DECEMBER/1941, pages 236-238

1. Atlantic Issues
Declaration of Panama
German Reply
German Statement of November 1, 1941
2. Appendix - pages 239-240
I: Population of Siberia
II: Towns of Siberia

Volume II

JANUARY/1942, page 73

1. Rescript of H. M. the Emperor of Japan, December 8, 1941
2. Memorandum of the Japanese Foreign Office, December 12, 1941
3. Hitler's Speech in the German Reichstag, December 11, 1941

FEBRUARY/1942, page 160

Admiral Shigetaro Shimada's Speech before the Diet, January 21, 1942

MARCH/1942, page 236

1. Prime Minister Churchill's Speech before the House of Commons, January 28, 1942
2. Chancellor Hitler's Speech, January 30, 1942

APRIL/1942, page 316

Chancellor Hitler's Speech, March 15, 1942

MAY/1942, page 399

All India Congress Resolution Rejecting Cripps Plan, April 11, 1942

JUNE/1942, page478

1. Chancellor Hitler's Speech, April 26, 1942
2. President Roosevelt's Broadcast, April 27, 1942

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Volume III

JULY/1942, pages 77-80

1. The Armistice of Compiegne; French Constitutional Acts of July 10, 1940
2. Speeches of Marshal Petain of October 11, 1940 and October 30, 1940

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER, pages 209-210

Exchange of Notes between Vichy and Washington regarding French
Warships in Alexandria

NOVEMBER/1942, page369

1. Excerpts from Chancellor Hitler's Speech of September 30, 1942
2. Stalin's Letter of October 4, 1942

Volume IV

MARCH/1943, page 241

1. Tripartite Economic Pacts
2. Chancellor Hitler's Proclamation on January 30, 1943
3. Reich Marshal Goering's Speech of January 30, 1943

Volume V

JULY/1943, page 76

Reich Minister Speer's Speech of June 6, 1943

OCTOBER/1943, page 279

1. Chancellor Hitler's Speech of September 10, 1943
2. Statement by the German Foreign Office Concerning Italian Assurances to continue the War on the Side of the Axis, of September 12, 1943
3. Mussolini's Five Orders of the Day, September 15, 1943
4. Japanese-German Declaration on the Continuation of the War, of September 15, 1943

Volume VI

MARCH/1944, pages 229-234

Documents Concerning Postwar Plans of the Allies and the Axis Powers

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I. THE ALLIES

1. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov's Questions to Chancellor Hitler, November 12/14, 1940. (See October 1941, pp. 73/74.)
2. Stalin on the Soviet War Aims, from his radio speech of July 3, 1941.
3. Polish-Soviet Treaty, July 30, 1941. (See November 1941, pp. 76/77.)
4. The Atlantic Charter. (See November 1941, pp.158/160.)
5. Prime Minister Churchill on the Atlantic Charter, from his radio speech of August& 24, 1941.
6. Anti-Axis Declaration at Washington, January 1, 1942.
7. Anglo-Soviet Treaty, May 26, 1942.
8. Terms of Armistice between the Allies and the Badoglio Government, September 3, 1943.
9. Statutes of the United Nation's Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), second draft of September 24, 1943.
10. Communiques from the Moscow Conference of the Foreign Ministers of the USSR, the USA, and Great Britain, October 19/30, 1943.
11. Stalin on the Soviet War aims, from his speech of November 6, 1943.
12. Speech delivered by Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and member of the British War Cabinet, on November 25, 1943.
13. Communiqué on the Teheran Conference, November 28, to December 1, 1943.
14. Communique of the Cairo Meeting, December 2, 1943.
15. Czechoslovakian-Soviet Treaty, December 12, 1943.
16. Australia-New Zealand Agreement, January 21, 1944.

II. THE AXIS POWERS

1. Three Power Pact, September 27, 1940.
2. The Imperial Rescript of December 8, 1941. (See January 1942, p. 73.)
3. German-Japanese-Italian Alliance, December 11, 1941.
4. Joint Declaration for the Construction of Greater East Asia, Tokyo, November 6, 1943.

APRIL/1944, pages 311-312

Excerpts from Prime Minister Churchill's speech in the House of commons on February 22, 1944.

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VOLUME VII

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER/1944, pages 161-162

Landmarks in the history of the Pacific Map, 1507-1783. List of 140 maps.

Pages 170-171

1. Condensed Version of the Lend-Lease Act; and Act to promote the United States defense.
2. Anglo-American Deliveries to the USSR.

OCTOBER/1944, page 238

1) Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) May 16, 1934.

DECEMBER/1944, pages 365-366

Documents concerning America's attitude toward the world:

1. An open letter from the Editors of Life to the People of England (Excerpts).
2. Summary of the Dumbarton Oaks Plan for Postwar World Organization.

VOLUME VIII

FEBRUARY/1945, pages 62-64

1. Twenty -five years of European treaties. List of 58 treaties from June 28, 1919 Versailles Treaty to December 10, 1944 USSR-French treaty of alliance and aid.
2. The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Aid.

Pages 103-106

Facts, figures, and documents pertaining to Southeastern Europe:

1. Territorial changes between 1914 and 1943.
2. Nationalities in the Balkans.
3. Religious distribution in the Balkans.
4. Interstate trade in Southeastern Europe in 1938.
5. German-Rumanian Economic Treaty of March 23, 1939.
6. Terms of the Armistice between Rumania and the Allies.
7. Excerpts from Churchill's speech December 5, 1944.