Joint declaration issued on Aug.
14, 1941, during World War II , by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt . Among the statements made in this propaganda manifesto, signed when the U.S. had not yet entered the war, were that neither the U.S. nor Britain sought aggrandizement and that both advocated the restoration of self-government to peoples forcibly deprived of it. The charter was incorporated by reference in the Declaration of the UN (1942).