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Atlantic
Charter
1941
The
President of the United States of America and the Prime
Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's
Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem
it right to make known certain common principles in the
national policies of their respective countries on which
they base their hopes for a better future for the world.
First,
their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or
other;
Second,
they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord
with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned;
Third,
they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of
government under which they will live; and they wish to see
sovereign rights and self government restored to those who
have been forcibly deprived of them;
Fourth,
they will endeavor, with due respect for their existing
obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great
or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms,
to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are
needed for their economic prosperity;
Fifth,
they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between
all nations in the economic field with the object of
securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic
advancement and social security;
Sixth,
after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope
to see established a peace which will afford to all nations
the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries,
and which will afford assurance that all the men in all
lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and
want;
Seventh,
such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas
and oceans without hindrance;
Eighth,
they believe that all of the nations of the world, for
realistic as well as spiritual reasons must come to the
abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can
be maintained if land, sea or air armaments continue to be
employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten,
aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending
the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general
security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential.
They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable
measure which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the
crushing burden of armaments.
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Winston
S. Churchill
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