The declaration formally established the four-power framework that would later influence the international order of the postwar world.
[2] At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden agreed to draft a declaration that included a call for “a general international organization, based on the principle sovereign equality of all nations.”[3] The declaration was drafted by US State Department advisers such Sumner Welles.
Their proposal eschewed the regional councils, preferred by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in favour of establishing an international postwar organization.
Roosevelt suspected that Stalin's true motivations were to avoid antagonizing the Japanese with whom they had signed a non-aggression pact in 1941.
Churchill's view was that Stalin had a similar reluctance to recognize China as a Great Power.