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ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL DRAFT 8 PEACE AIMS,
PLEDGING DESTRUCTION OF NAZI TYRANNY;
JOINT STEPS BELIEVED CH D AT PARLEY
TALKS HELD AT SEA
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PHOENIX
Closer War Cooperation
to Doom Aggressors
Pledged by Leaders
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1991
SOVIET AID INCLUDED
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Atlantic Charter sets war aims of allies
Chis Lalble
DIsarmament df Acis is Envisaged
in a World Freed From Want
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ATLANTIC CHARTER
First Day of Issue: September 3, 1991
First Issue Location: Phoenix, Arizona
During his second term in office, U.S. President Franklin
Roosevelt watched Adolf Hitler tighten his grip on Ger-
many with growing alarm. When Europe went to war in
1939, Roosevelt sought to show support for the Allied
nations battling Axis aggression while conforming to
America's policy of strict isolationism. By the summer of
1941, Great Britain had been at war with Germany for
nearly two years. Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew
his country needed the bolstering support of its western
cousin, the United States. In August of 1941, President
Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
met aboard the warships U.S.S. Augusta and H.M.S.
Prince of Wales in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay. On
August 14, the two leaders issued a statement subse-
quently called the Atlantic Charter which called for the
destruction of Nazi tyranny, affirmed the rights of each
nation to political self-determination and called for the
disarmament of all potential aggressors.
No. 91-62
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® Original painting for the Maximum Card by Chris Calle
