ATTAINABLE IN OUR TIME'
'Attainable In Our Time' Atlantic Charter (August 1U, 1 HI) "JOINT declaration by the President of the United States of "America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill,'representing'! His Majesty's...
...They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving people the crushing burden of armaments...
...The third is freedom from want —which , translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world...
...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 will live out their lives in freedom from fear and want...
...Our strength is in our unity of purpose...
...Fourth, they will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment of 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...
...Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere...
...The first is freedom of speech and expression— everywhere in the world...
...It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation...
...This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and" heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women...
...freely expressed wishes of he people concerned...
...and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them...
...A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear...
...That kind of a world is the antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.' "To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order...
...That is no vision of a distant millennium...
...His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain com-non principles in the national policies of their respective countries...
...Second, they desire to see no ter-itorial changes that do not accord vith the...
...Fifth, they desire to bring about the fullest col laboratioii between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic adjustment, and social security...
...Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change—in a perpetual and peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch...
...Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or to keep them...
...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...
...The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world...
...and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God...
...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 inessential...
...The fourth is freedom from fear —w h i c h , translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world...
...The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society...
...Seventh, such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance...
...Third, they respect the right of all leoples to choose the form of government under which they will live...
...The Four Freedoms (January 6, 19ltl) "IN the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms...
...First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 49
