The middle principles called for economic cooperation and improved social welfare as part of the peace settlement. They also promised a world freer from want, fear, and the threat of war. Those goals depended on moving goods, since lower barriers and shared prosperity required ships to cross the seas without hindrance. Freedom of the seas was an economic mechanism as well as a maritime ideal. The call to disarm aggressors and reduce armaments widened that maritime program into a proposed system of postwar security.
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Economic security depended on freedom of the seas
The charter joined economic cooperation and social welfare to maritime access, freedom from fear and want, and postwar disarmament.