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George VI (1936-1952), Newfoundland Meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt to draw up the Atlantic Charter in 1941, Silver medal (l77.5mm. 225.62gm.) by Turner & Simpson of Birmingham. Conjoined, crowned busts of George and Queen Elizabeth r., rev. Busts of Churchill and Roosevelt vis-a-vis, US and UK flags between. Extremely Fine, matt surfaces some discolouration on salient areas of rev. Hallmarked on edge '1941' a book is included, entitled 'Atlantic Meeting' by H V Morton 1943, [2], hall marked medal excessively rare.
Ex. DNW 15th. Mar. 2011, lot.
Only four struck with hallmarks - this example belonged to Mr Turner of Turner & Simpson, the Birmingham die sinkers and medallists who was working between 1935 and 1953. The medal was allegedly affixed to a card on the wall of Turner's office at the company's works in Legg Street, Birmingham, which perhaps explains the discoloration on the reverse.
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the 14th. of August 1941, following a meeting of the two heads of government in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. It set out the end goals of a global war that the United States was to enter four months later: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; self-determination; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.
The meeting had been called in response to the geopolitical situation in Europe by mid-1941. Although Great Britain had been spared from a German invasion in the autumn of 1940 and, with the passage of the U.S. Lend Lease Act in March 1941, GB was assured U.S. material support, by the end of May, German forces had inflicted humiliating defeats upon British, Greek, and, Yugoslav forces in the Balkans and were threatening to overrun Egypt and close off the Suez Canal, thereby restricting British access to its possessions in India. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on the 22nd. of June 1941, few policymakers in Washington or London believed that the Soviets would be able to resist the Nazi onslaught for more than six weeks. While the British Government focused its efforts on dealing with the Germans in Europe, they were also concerned that Japan might take advantage of the situation to seize British, French, and Dutch territories in Southeast Asia.
Ex. DNW 15th. Mar. 2011, lot.
Only four struck with hallmarks - this example belonged to Mr Turner of Turner & Simpson, the Birmingham die sinkers and medallists who was working between 1935 and 1953. The medal was allegedly affixed to a card on the wall of Turner's office at the company's works in Legg Street, Birmingham, which perhaps explains the discoloration on the reverse.
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the 14th. of August 1941, following a meeting of the two heads of government in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. It set out the end goals of a global war that the United States was to enter four months later: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; self-determination; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.
The meeting had been called in response to the geopolitical situation in Europe by mid-1941. Although Great Britain had been spared from a German invasion in the autumn of 1940 and, with the passage of the U.S. Lend Lease Act in March 1941, GB was assured U.S. material support, by the end of May, German forces had inflicted humiliating defeats upon British, Greek, and, Yugoslav forces in the Balkans and were threatening to overrun Egypt and close off the Suez Canal, thereby restricting British access to its possessions in India. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on the 22nd. of June 1941, few policymakers in Washington or London believed that the Soviets would be able to resist the Nazi onslaught for more than six weeks. While the British Government focused its efforts on dealing with the Germans in Europe, they were also concerned that Japan might take advantage of the situation to seize British, French, and Dutch territories in Southeast Asia.