单词 | atlantic charter |
释义 | > as lemmasAtlantic Charter Atlantic Charter n. a declaration of eight common principles in international relations, drawn up by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on behalf of the British Empire and the U.S.A., at their meeting in the Western Atlantic in August 1941. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > document embodying > specific Atlantic Charter1941 1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 9 July–30 Sept. 150/1 The President of the United States and the British representative in what is aptly called the Atlantic Charter, have jointly pledged their countries to the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny. 1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 130/3 The verbal flaying of the clumsy, the ruthless persecution of the unfortunate—these have more in common with Buchenwald than with the Atlantic Charter. < as lemmas |
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