Claim: During the process of drafting the Atlantic Charter which set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, an error crept in the text in London, but it was corrected before the signing ceremony.
Evidence: The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II. No signed version ever existed. It made no mention of any signing or ceremony. The account in Churchill's The Second World War concluded, "A number of verbal alterations were agreed, and the document was then in its final shape."