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Morality and foreign policy: appendix

Excerpts from : THE ATLANTIC CHARTER

Statement issued by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, after their meeting «at sea» on August 14,1941

The President of the United States 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.

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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;

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Sixth: After the destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safetywithin their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom and want;

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.