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The United Nations agreement was a brilliant gesture, but not even its loudest applauder claimed that it organized the anti-Axis world for war or peace. Easy acceptance of the words might make people forget that only the painful drudgery of international cooperation and the abnegation of selfish nationalism could unite the united nations. That was yet to come.
So far the only concrete form that unity had taken was in a common determination of 26 nations to beat the Axis. But for the people of the Axis countries that fact could not be other than sobering: 26 nations—count them—26, all determined that Hitler and his tyranny shall be destroyed.