How did the Atlantic Charter echo Wilsons Fourteen Points?

Ironicaly, Franklin D. Roosevelet and Winston S. Churchill wanted to bring Woodrow

Wilsons Fourteen Points back to life by breaking one of the most important rules that Wilson
introduced - "... diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." They had
broken this rule when they secretly met 1941 on the Atlantic ocean, far away from curious
eyes of the public. They wanted to set up political goals not just for the near but also for the
far future and these political goals were very similar to those of Woodrow Wilson. Their
action was provoked by World War II just like Wilsons was provoked by the World War I
two decades before. The only difference was that in this case the Germans have not been
defeated yet, so a precondition to reintroduce Wilsons ideas was to defeat the Germans.
Interesting, this precondition was barely mentioned in the Atlantic Charter. The sixth
statement of the Atlantic charter says: "... after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they
hope to see established a peace...". This means that the Atlantic Charter was actually an
agreement on how the world should be put in order afer the World War II and not how to win
the war. This is another simularity of the Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter. Both
focused on the after-war time with the intention to organize the world on some idealistic
principels.
Its obvious that the Atlantic Charter is a reproduction of the Fourteen Points. These two
document have a lot in common especially in the domain of security. Security should have
been achieved trough disarmament, and trough social welfare. Another strong link between
the Atlantic Charter and the Fourteen Points is the freedom of seas principle and the self-
determination principle. The Atlantic Charter in comparison to the Fourteen Pointsnhad
though an additionally symbolic function. It showed that the US will support Great Britain in
the war despite the strong opposition that agitated in the US against involving into the war in
Europe.
The almost same plan after the World War I failed and suceeded after the World War II.
Why? From this point of view it seems in 1919 the world was not ready to accept Wilsons
ideas. They were to extreme and to modern at this time. The world recognized the value of
Wilsons ideas after it experienced the consequences of the Nazi tyranny.