10, Downing Street,
                                                  Whitehall.
 
 
 
     The President of the U.S.A. and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing H. M. G.
in the U.K., being met together to resolve and concert the means of providing for the safety of
their respective countries in face of Nazi and German aggression and of the dangers to all peoples
arising therefrom, deem it right to make knowm certain principles which they both accept for
guidance in the framing of their policy and on which they base their hopes for a better future for
the world.
     First, their countries seek no aggrandisement, territorial or other;
     Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely
expressed wishes of the peoples concerned;
     Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of Government under which
they will live: they are only concerned to defend the rights of
 
 
 
 
 
 
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