On August 14, 1941, after having finished their talks aboard a warship on the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the Atlantic Charter. This joint declaration stated the purpose of World War II and the global vision for the postwar world.
  • Document 1 is issue No. 189 of Shashin Shuho, which was published on October 8, 1941. It features an article titled “Foreign correspondence: America today” that presents photographs of the talks between Roosevelt and Churchill. An explanation of the Atlantic Charter placed next to one of the photographs reads “the U.S. and U.K. issued an eight-point joint declaration proclaiming their aim to defeat the Nazis, and posing a threat to the Axis Powers by emphasizing the West’s original world peace policies.”


Document 1 : A06031078400　Shashin Shuho (Weekly Photographical Journal) No. 189



For additional documents and commentary about the announcement of the Atlantic Charter, see the following website. (Note: Only part of this exhibition is available in English. The following link is in Japanese.)


*Special Internet exhibition The US-Japan War Talks as seen in official documents: Detailed Chronology
August 14, 1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
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Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan