ATLANTIC CHARTER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 22, 23 December 1944, Page 5

ATLANTIC CHARTER

DEFENCE BY ORIGINATOR

OBJECTIVES FOR WORLD (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (12.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Replying to a reporter who remarked that some critics considered the Atlantic Charter was losing its purpose or slipping away, President Roosevelt, x at a Press conference, said the objectives of the Atlantic Charter were as valid to- - day as when they were announced in 1941.

! Certain documents through the years seemed to maintain a great importance affecting public thinking on objectives for a better world, he added. The objectives, in some instances, were never attained but they., were still good. "For example,'.' he said, "people don't live up to all the Ten Commandments and all the doctrines of Christianity, but nevertheless, they are pretty good objectives to shoot at. President-Roosevelt explained that he was not comparing the Charter with the Commandments or the Christian religion, but the Charter would take its place in history as a major step forward just as President Wilson's Fourteen Points constituted something all would like to see attained.