Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill buried the Atlantic Charter. Since the President, coauthor, has not taken issue . . . we may take it the abandonment of the Charter is established policy...
Death of the Charter. The New York Times, never an idle rumormonger, and by reputation the U.S. newspaper most concerned with the conduct of foreign affairs, led the field in publication of discussion of the present dangers. But a variety of voices were heard. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, with rare lack of emotion, told the U.S. some news which Washington had carefully not released...
...Presumption of the Atlantic Charter was that its basic principles applied to all -victor & vanquished alike. . . . But [Mr. Churchill] made the flat statement that the Atlantic Charter does not apply in any sense to the enemy. 'Unconditional surrender' means we end the war, he explained, with no promises of any kind...
...common with every loyal citizen of the United Nations we welcomed the declarations of Teheran and Moscow, which explicitly reaffirmed the earlier declaration of Jan. 1, 1942, pledging support for the purposes and principles of the Atlantic Charter. . . . And we welcomed especially the joint communiqués issued at Moscow by Mr. Molotov, Mr. Eden and Mr. Hull, which said...
Unanimously the 55 companies claimed that the new venture was unnecessary. They called it a "violation of the Atlantic Charter"(which postulates equal access to the world's natural resources by all nations), and a dangerous U.S. Government commitment in one of the world's tinder-box areas...