Welfare, freedom of the seas, and the disarmament problem

Economic cooperation and social welfare were attractive but undefined promises. A world free from fear of war also sat uneasily beside the deterrent value of credible military capability and Churchill's distrust of Stalin. Freedom of the seas had clear commercial appeal, but the proposed disarmament of aggressors and broader postwar disarmament risked repeating the weaknesses of interwar naval arms control. Germany and Japan were conventionally disarmed after the war while the victorious powers moved into nuclear armament, so the principle was realized only in part. The final points promised desirable outcomes without defining the mechanisms or degree of achievement required.