The text was originally called the Joint Declaration of the President and Prime Minister rather than the Atlantic Charter. The Labour-supporting Daily Herald coined the more memorable name, which Churchill adopted publicly on 24 August 1941. Roosevelt did not provide Congress with a final copy until 21 August, and no conventional signed original survives. A copy bearing both signatures in Roosevelt's handwriting shows how informal the statement remained even as it became known worldwide as a charter.
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A newspaper supplied the name for an unsigned charter
The declaration acquired its memorable title after the summit, while its lack of a definitive signed original reveals how informal the document was.