1941: New World Order

As used by the Axis Powers, the 'New World Order' or the 'New Order' refers to a system of totalitarian slavery to be imposed upon the peoples of the world, when and if the powers which signed the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo (Tripartite) Pact on Sept. 27, 1940, should win the War. For examples of how the 'New World Order' works, see the internal social, political and economic systems set up in nations conquered by Germany, such as, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and others.

The Tripartite Pact divided the world into spheres of influence, allotting Europe to Germany, the Mediterranean areas to Italy and the Orient to Japan. The Pact pledged each signatory to give full economic, political and military aid to any other signatory in case of attack by any other power. The Pact, originally signed at Berlin by representatives of Germany, Italy and Japan, was directed primarily against the United States.

Hungary signed this Pact, joining the 'New World Order' on Nov. 20, 1940, Rumania on Nov. 23, and Slovakia on Nov. 24. Bulgaria signed as a member, March 1, 1941, and Yugoslavia, after heroic resistance, was finally compelled to attach its signature to the Pact on June 15, 1941.

In order to combat this world-wide conspiracy, 26 nations, known as the United Nations, under the leadership of the United States and Great Britain, signed a pact on Jan. 2, 1942, in Washington, pledging adherence to the principles enunciated in the 8-point 'Atlantic Charter' drafted on the high seas by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. The nations signing this pact committed themselves to complete cooperation in their common war against their common enemies. They further agreed to pool their resources, materials and efforts, and each bound himself not to make a separate peace.

Besides the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Soviet Russia and China, nine Central American and Caribbean nations, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador, and the free governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia were signatories to this pact. On Jan. 21, 1942, the 21 Latin American nations, while not joining the United Nations fully, agreed to break off diplomatic relations with the Axis. (See BRAZIL: Foreign Policy.)

Thus two ways of life, two basic concepts of human social, political and economic existence, two 'world orders' were locked in mortal struggle: the first, the so-called Anglo-American system, born of the American and French Revolutions and the English Common Law, a belief in the dignity and sovereignty of the individual as above all systems and institutions; and the second, the so-called Germanic-Fascist system which asserts that one state and one race (the German) is superior and should organize the earth into a racial and economic hierarchy. See also FASCISM.