Dear Learners,
In a Harvard speech of September 1943, Churchill exhorted his listeners,
"Let us go forward in malice to none and good will to all. Such plans
offer far better prizes than taking away other people's provinces or land
or grinding them down in exploitation. The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind."
THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
The Original Version
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.
First, their countries seek no aggrandisement, 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 endeavour, 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 labour standards, economic advancement and social security.
Sixth, after the final destruction of 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 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 practical measures which will lighten for peace-loving
peoples the crushing burden of armaments.
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Mmmmmmmmm ;-)
Andrew Campbell
Oxford
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