Atlantic charter was issued jointly by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The so-called "Atlantic Charter" was never an official, signed document. Neither Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Winston Churchill ever signed it. No signed copy has ever existed. At a December 19, 1944 press conference, in response to the direct question, "Did Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter?", FDR replied, "No one ever signed the Atlantic Charter." Supposedly signed on August 14th, 1941, it wasn't even called the "Atlantic Charter" until about a week after the text of the statement was released.
The "Atlantic Charter" was never a legal document and it was never signed by either Franklin D. Roosevelt or Winston S. Churchill. No one signed it, not on August 14, 1941 or any other day. It was a mimeographed press release called "Joint Statement" and it had abloslutely no legal standing. It wasn't called the "Atlantic Charter" until it was called that by the London Daily Herald on about August 19, 1941. Roosevelt didn't use that term in public until November of 1941. The Office of War Information printed a propaganda poster entitled "Atlantic Charter". It was a propaganda poster. It was "OWI Poster No. 50".
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Because the views expressed in it did not agree with those of the USSR and because the Atlantic Charter was ultimately ignored
50 countries originally signed it, and the 51st, Poland, signed later.