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 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 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 measures which will lighten for
peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston S. Churchill
  
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