On 14 August 1941 US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill made the following declaration of “certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future of the world.” [...]

Madame le Président, je vais employer encore une fois une langue véhiculaire. Si j'étais croyant, je commencerais par les mots «Gott helf mir ! - que Dieu m'aide !» Car d'une telle sorte d'aide mystérieuse j'ai besoin pour ce que je vais essayer de dire au cours de ces misérables cinq minutes que le Règlement m'attribue. Je vais essayer, Monsieur Genscher et Monsieur Colombo, de vous convier à vous placer au-dessus de vous-mêmes, à la hauteur de la tâche que vous vous êtes assignée. [...]

The American public gives too much credit to what may be called, and what is called in Europe, our effort to guide the world aright. America’s great world political position is not due primarily to our moral leadership but primarily to our wealth and economic position. It is not to our moral teachings that the rest of the world responds, but to our material power. If we were a poor and weak nation the world would today care no more about what we thought than did the world before the Great War. [...]

Dear Sola, I did so much enjoy meeting you the other day, and it was very kind of you to come to see me. I much hope that whenever you are in England you will let me know, and that we meet again soon. My publishers are becoming rather restive with my regard to the £45 which the Albanian Government, through General Pariani , agreed to buy. You very kindly said you would inquire into that matter for me. I am rather anxious, as I am in no position to pay the money myself.[...]