![]() ![]() It called on “the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.”įour years later, with the war over and Roosevelt dead, the new president entered office knowing little about how his predecessor saw the future of the world. We believe that any nationality, no matter how small, has the inherent right to its own nationhood.” That was the core of the Atlantic Charter in 1941, which both Churchill and Roosevelt signed. During the Casablanca conference in January 1943, Franklin Roosevelt spoke bitterly to his son about European imperialism: “Don’t think for a moment, Elliott, that Americans would be dying in the Pacific tonight if it hadn’t been for the shortsighted greed of the French and the British and the Dutch.” Earlier, he had spoken openly to the White House correspondents: “There has never been, there isn’t now and there never will be, any race of people on earth fit to serve as masters over their fellow men. ![]()
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