Impact On Imperial Powers
The problems came not from Germany and Japan, but from those of the allies that had empires and which resisted self-determination--especially Britain, the Soviet Union and the Netherlands. Initially it appears that Roosevelt and Churchill had agree that the third point of Charter was not going to apply to Africa and Asia. However Roosevelt's speechwriter Robert Sherwood noted that "it was not long before the people of India, Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia were beginning to ask if the Atlantic Charter extended also to the Pacific and to Asia in general." With a war that could only be won with these allies, Roosevelt's solution was to put some pressure on Britain but to postpone until after the war the issue of self-determination of the colonies. In a speech a year after the Charter was published he avoided the issue of whether it applied to the rest of the world even though the Office of War Information draft of the speech had explicitly said it did.
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