Churchill, Winston / Dwight D. Eisenhower / Bernard L. Montgomery. Illuminated manuscript document, entitled "The Child's Righ...

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Churchill, Winston / Dwight D. Eisenhower / Bernard L. Montgomery. Illuminated manuscript document, entitled "The Child's Rights". Churchill, Winston / Dwight D. Eisenhower / Bernard L. Montgomery. Illuminated manuscript document, entitled "The Child's Rights" signed ("Winston S. Churchill"; "Dwight D. Eisenhower" and "B.L. Montgomery Field - Marshall."), 1 page (12.25 x 16 in.; 311 x 406 mm.), no place, September 1945, being a handwritten calligraphic document, on vellum, listing universal?rights for children. Signed by Churchill, Eisenhower and Montgomery just?four months after the end of the war in Europe, most probably produced for a fund-raising charitable event.?Artist William Bromage has scribed in red, blue, black, green and gold inks with hand-colored, historiated borders. Signed by the artist at bottom. Slight toning along edges; otherwise, fine. One month following the end of World War II, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery sign an illuminated copy of The Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The?document states in full:??The Child's Rights The Declaration of Geneva, drafted in 1922 by?Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of the Save the Children Fund, has been endorsed?by the leading statesmen of many countries, including successive Prime?Ministers of Great Britain, and Prime Ministers of the Overseas British?Dominions, and was adopted by the Assembly of the League of Nations in?1924 as the League¹s Charter of Child Welfare. By the present?declaration of the rights of the child, commonly known as the 'Declaration?of Geneva, men & women of all nations recognizing that Mankind owes to?the Child the best that it has to give, declare and accept it as their?duty that, beyond and above all considerations of race, nationality or?creed:??I. The child must be given the means requisite for its normal development?both materially and spiritually.? II. The child that is hungry must be fed; the child that is sick must be?nursed; the child that is backward must be helped; the delinquent child?must be reclaimed; and the orphan & the waif must be sheltered and?succored.? III. The child must be the first to receive relief in times of distress.? IV. The child must be put in a position to earn a livelihood & must be?protected against every form of exploitation. V. The child must be brought?up in the consciousness that its talents must be devoted to the service of?its fellow men. World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed or maimed. By August 1945, when the Japanese surrendered, some 40 million civilians had died on both sides of the conflict. After the war ended, 20 million European children were war orphans, often lingering for years in displaced persons camps that sprung up all over the continent. The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is the name given to a series of related children's rights proclamations drafted by Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb in 1922. Jebb believed that the rights of the child should be especially protected and enforced. These ideas were adopted by the International Save the Children Union, in Geneva on 23 February 1923 and endorsed by the League of Nations General Assembly on 26 November 1924 as the World Child Welfare Charter. These proclamations were not enforceable by international law, but rather served as guidelines for countries to follow.