F.D.R., CHURCHILL SEA TRYST UNDENIED
By United Press (as published in the Brooklyn Eagle August 6, 1941) Rumors multiplied in London and Washington today that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt had met or were about to meet somewhere in the northwest Atlantic, but the only concrete thing to give them substantiation was the inability of American and British officials to deny them. If the heads of the two English-speaking nations had met or were about to meet their governments had succeeding in cloaking them with impenetrable secrecy. The movements of Churchill, head of a State at was, necessarily are military secrets, but the movements of Mr. Roosevelt also were classified as a military secret by the Navy. The British public had no hint of the whereabouts of the Prime Minister. President Roosevelt boarded the yacht Potomac Sunday night at New London, Conn., for what was supposed to be a vacation at sea. Correspondents did not accompany him on an escorting destroyer, as has been the custom, but yesterday the Navy released a bulletin as from the Potomac that he was enjoying rest and quiet. Washington official circles heard reports that Mr. Roosevelt had transferred at sea to a fast cruiser1 which had taken or was taking him to a rendezvous with the Prime Minister. Like all the other rumors, this could not be confirmed in any quarter. The White House, Secretary of State Hull and other Governmental quarters in Washington professed an inability to confirm or deny the rumors. 1. The fast cruiser was the USS Augusta (CA-31) E-mail: Robert Swanson |