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Roosevelt said : "Clearly there must be some compromise ... Perhaps we could say that instead of summarily executing 50,000 we should settle on a smaller number, say 49,500." The Americans and Russians laughed. The British remained silent "in the presence of Churchill's mounting fury." Stalin called on everyone present for an opinion. Elliott said "Our armies will settle the matter for most of those 50,000 and perhaps a hundred thousand more." Stalin, greatly pleased, walked around the table to Elliott, put his arm around his shoulder and drank to his health. Churchill, infuriated, rushed to Elliott, shaking his finger in his face and crying: "Are you interested in damaging relations between the allies? Do you know what you are saying? How can you dare to say such a thing?" Elliott says he had a good reason to believe Churchill never forgot the incident but that his father, Franklin Roosevelt, was greatly amused by it. <ref>Elliot Roosevelt, ''As He Saw It'', (NY:Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1946), p. 186-194, 202.</ref>
Roosevelt said : "Clearly there must be some compromise ... Perhaps we could say that instead of summarily executing 50,000 we should settle on a smaller number, say 49,500." The Americans and Russians laughed. The British remained silent "in the presence of Churchill's mounting fury." Stalin called on everyone present for an opinion. Elliott said "Our armies will settle the matter for most of those 50,000 and perhaps a hundred thousand more." Stalin, greatly pleased, walked around the table to Elliott, put his arm around his shoulder and drank to his health. Churchill, infuriated, rushed to Elliott, shaking his finger in his face and crying: "Are you interested in damaging relations between the allies? Do you know what you are saying? How can you dare to say such a thing?" Elliott says he had a good reason to believe Churchill never forgot the incident but that his father, Franklin Roosevelt, was greatly amused by it. <ref>Elliot Roosevelt, ''As He Saw It'', (NY:Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1946), p. 186-194, 202.</ref>
==Presidential election of 1944==
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." On the wall of the National Museum in Washington, beautifully framed and illuminated was the Atlantic Charter itself, with the signatures of Roosevelt and Churchill. Daily visitors stood before it. The curator was
asked where he got it. He answered that 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.
Not long after Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State and Edward Stettinius named to succeed him.
==Refences==
==Refences==