No signed version ever existed . The document was threshed out through several drafts and the final agreed text was telegraphed to London and Washington . President Roosevelt gave Congress the Charter 's content on 21 August 1941 . He said later , " There is n't any copy of the Atlantic Charter , so far as I know . I have n't got one . The British have n't got one . The nearest thing you will get is the message of the radio operator on '' Augusta '' and '' Prince of Wales '' . That 's the nearest thing you will come to it ... There was no formal document . " The British War Cabinet replied with its approval and a similar acceptance was telegraphed from Washington . During this process , an error crept into the London text , but this was subsequently corrected . The account in Churchill 's '' The Second World War '' concludes " A number of verbal alterations were agreed , and the document was then in its final shape " , and makes no mention of any signing or ceremony . In Churchill 's account of the Yalta Conference he quotes Roosevelt saying of the unwritten British constitution that " it was like the Atlantic Charter – the document did not exist , yet all the world knew about it . Among his papers he had found one copy signed by himself and me , but strange to say both signatures were in his own handwriting . " The Allied nations and leading organisations quickly and widely endorsed the Charter . At the subsequent meeting of the Inter-Allied Council in London on 24 September 1941 , the governments in exile of Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Greece , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , and Yugoslavia , as well as the Soviet Union , and representatives of the Free French Forces , unanimously adopted adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter . On 1 January 1942 , a larger group of nations , who adhered to the principles of the Atlantic Charter , issued a joint Declaration by United Nations stressing their solidarity in the defense against Hitlerism
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Yalta Conference
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