Octavo. 56pp. Title device shows the American and British flags crossed over an olive branch, an evocative image for this compilation of crucial and now-iconic public addresses at the height of the Second World War. Included are FDR's addresses of December 8, 1941 declaring war against Japan; his December 9, 1941 broadcast from the Oval Office; his December 11, 1941 declaration of war against Germany and Italy; his Christmas message of 1941, delivered with Churchill from the White House; Churchill's own address to Congress on December 26, 1941; and the January 6, 1942 State of the Union. Bound-in is a fold-out facsimile of the United Nations declaration ratifying the Atlantic Charter, including the signatures from the representatives of the assembled Allied countries. Initials in blue and text in red and black. The whole is a rare fine issuance from the White House, ordered for publication at the behest of the president and printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington. No doubt the whole, given the timeline, was a considerable undertaking, designed to motivate the Allies through the commemoration of their initial commitments to the effort against the Axis Powers. This out-of-series copy is especially appealing, and is likely an extraneous run off the press, intended as a gift to an ambassador or cabinet member (note, for example, that the copy at the Library of Congress was donated by William D. Hassett, who was FDR's secretary from 1944 to 1945). Bound in quarter vellum with red-white-and-blue marbled paper over boards and leather label to spine. Stray rubs, spine mildly sunned, chip to label, else near fine.