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DECLARATION DP PRINCIPLES, KNOWN AS
THE ATLANTIC CHARTER, BY THE PRES*
IDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OP
AMERICA AND THE PRIME MINISTER OP THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUGUST 14, 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 ¥/ith the freely .expressed wishes
of the peoples concerned?
Thirdf 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 hoDe 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 the 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