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==Presidential politics==

==Presidential politics==

Soon details about how the conference at Teheran captured the attention of the American public. All the little liberated countries to which Roosevelt had made such definite promises and whose people in this country had been so solicitously courted during the [[Presidential election of 1944]] had been betrayed at Teheran. Roosevelt had scrapped the [[Atlantic Charter]]<ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'',  John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 12, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Twelve___The_Atlantic_Ch.htm The Atlantic Charter Is Scrapped '']</ref> which asserted the "desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed desires of the peoples concerned, that 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." The Teheran agreement violated this pledge.     

Soon details about how the conference at Teheran captured the attention of the American public. All the little liberated countries to which Roosevelt had made such definite promises and whose people in this country had been so solicitously courted during the [[Presidential election of 1944]] had been betrayed at Teheran. Roosevelt had scrapped the [[Atlantic Charter]]<ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'',  [[John T. Flynn]], Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 12, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Twelve___The_Atlantic_Ch.htm The Atlantic Charter Is Scrapped '']</ref> which asserted the "desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed desires of the peoples concerned, that 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." The Teheran agreement violated this pledge.     

    

    

On December 20, 1944, the President at a press conference was asked what had become of the Atlantic Charter.  Roosevelt replied there was not and never had been a complete Atlantic Charter signed by him and Churchill.  Then where is the Charter now, he was asked. He replied: "There wasn't any copy of the Atlantic Charter so far as I know." The Charter had been on displa at the National Museum in Washington with the signatures of Roosevelt and Churchill. Daily visitors stood before it. The curator told journalists it came from the [[Office of War Information]] (OWI). OWI printed 240,000 copies of it. After press inquiries, the Charter was removed from the display at the National Museum.   

On December 20, 1944, the President at a press conference was asked what had become of the Atlantic Charter.  Roosevelt replied there was not and never had been a complete Atlantic Charter signed by him and Churchill.  Then where is the Charter now, he was asked. He replied: "There wasn't any copy of the Atlantic Charter so far as I know." The Charter had been on displa at the National Museum in Washington with the signatures of Roosevelt and Churchill. Daily visitors stood before it. The curator told journalists it came from the [[Office of War Information]] (OWI). OWI printed 240,000 copies of it. After press inquiries, the Charter was removed from the display at the National Museum.