The Atlantic Charter applies not only to the parts of the world that border the Atlantic but to the whole world; disarmament of aggressors, self-determination of nations and peoples, and the four freedoms--freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Roosevelt describes the global applicability of the Atlantic Charter's principles, including disarmament and freedoms.
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