Even before the war broke out, Frankin Roosevelt was committed to help upgrade the status of all nations, not on the basis of colonialism, but on the basis of the sovereign nation-state.  He formulated a declaration of "Four Freedoms" which were widely circulated.  "In future days," he said, "which we seek to secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms."
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.*  The first is the freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
.*  The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
.*  The third is the freedom from want - which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world.
.*  The fourth is freedom from fear - which, translated into world terms terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against a neighbor - anywhere in the world.
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Back in 1941, he formally sought to have the British "sign on" to the principles of the "Four Freedoms" under the Atlantic Charter.  He pointed out at a summit meeting  "...I think I speak as America's President when I say that America won't help England in this war simply so that she will be able to continue to ride roughshod over colonial peoples."  His demands were unmistakable, and Churchill's protests vehement:
"There can be no tampering with the Empire's economic agreements."
"They're artificial."
"They are the foundation of our greatness."
"The peace cannot include any continued despotism."
Elliot Roosevelt recounts the following outburst from Churchill: "Mr. President, I believe you are trying to do away with the British Empire... but in spite of that, you constitute our only hope."  This was the tone that persisted throughout the war years.

Even while the war raged, Roosevelt devoted as great deal of his energies to plans for the postwar economic development of the world, including large scale infrastructural development of super-ports, international rail links, water development projects, including an economic development project for the middle east, and the greening of the Sahara which was even, then, technologically feasible.  His vision for the postwar years also included an cooperative association with the USSR, which had been built up through the war years, which Churchill had totally opposed from the beginning.  Churchill had actually supported Hitler and Mussolini until the late 1930, while Roosevelt had earlier tried to gain support for his idea to repudiate the Versailles Treaty and its onerous conditions that principally breed nationalist 'saviors' like Hitler.  Had his counsel been heeded, which the British, the French, and people in his own government opposed, World War II might have never occurred.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, the entire structure of his elaborately built policies for a better, safer, and more prosperous world were immediately overturned.  His political plans, his development plans, his plans for ending colonialism, never saw the light of day.  His cooperative relationship with the Soviets was turned into confrontation, the British Empire was restored, and the United Nations organization was restructured into a tool for world domination, for serving British imperial interests.

The events that followed the death of President Franklin Roosevelt mirrored the tragic failure of the League of Cambrai that had been organized in the early 16th century to crush the Venetian oligarchy, that was hindered by 'diplomacy' in its final moments and prevented from fulfilling the assigned task.  The problem in those days was a lack of political alertness by all parties involved.  Thus, the slave trader of Europe was spared, who had its revenge soon thereafter in the Thirty Years War.

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