What role can Britain play in the world? I know where I’d look for inspiration The key is to recapture the creative ideas and skilful diplomacy exhibited in a summit 80 years ago, says a former head of the Foreign Office Photo: Terry Mathews / Alamy Stock Photo The post-war international order began to take shape aboard two warships anchored in Placentia Bay, Canada, 80 years ago in the summer of 1941. This was the setting for the first of the great Churchill/Roosevelt wartime summits. The result was a shared vision of the future peace, set out in a joint declaration known as the Atlantic Charter. Much of it was drafted by the British diplomat, Alexander Cadogan.