Reactions

• USA

  Insistent that charter was to acknowledge war was being fought to ensure self determinations and wouldn't guarantee their position in the war
• Churchill

  Wanted USA to enter the war
• Britain

  Forced to agree to these aims

  September 1941 speech - PM states Charter was only meant to apply to states under German occupation
• Churchill

  Unhappy with inclusion of references to peoples' rights to self determination

  Considered Charter an interim and partial statement of war aims to reassure countries of our righteous purpose