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Article: From 'Associated Powers' to 'United Nations.' ('Declaration by Associated Powers' that became the 'Declaration by United Nations' created by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1942 to fortify the Allied alliance)
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 1, 1994
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Eight years after the event, Britain's Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill described a memorable meeting with United States President Franklin Roosevelt in a bedroom at the White House on New Year's Day 1942. "The President was wheeled in to me on the morning of I January. I got out of my bath, and agreed to the draft", he wrote in his six-volume history of the Second World War.
Mr. Churchill had arrived in Washington the night of 22 December 1941. it was just two weeks after Pearl Harbor, when most of the United States Pacific fleet was destroyed. For the Allies, the news from the fronts was grim. The President, the Prime Minister and their staffs were meeting ...