The following is a memorandum describing arrangements for the Divine Services and Luncheon on the HMS PRINCE OF WALES at the Atlantic Conference in Argentia, Newfoundland on 10 August 1941 (this document was prepared based on a copy thereof in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, NY)


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U.S.S. AUGUSTA

 

Ship Harbor, Newfoundland
Augusta 9, 1941

MEMORANDUM FOR COMMANDER C.R. THOMPSON
				(Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister)
	Subject:    Arrangements for President Roosevelt's visit to H.M.S. PRINCE OF WALES
                              	for Divine Services and Luncheon, Sunday August 10, 1941.

1. The President will embark in U.S.S. McDOUGAL at 1030. McDOUGAL will proceed alongside H.M.S. PRINCE OF WALES, bow to stern, McDOUGAL starboard side to starboard quarter PRINCE OF WALES. Using PRINCE OF WALES crane. brow will be swung from McDOUGAL to PRINCE OF WALES, and the President will proceed on board. At the termination of the anthem, after the guard of honor has sloped arms, the President will walk aft, thus reviewing the guard, and will proceed aft inboard of the mixed ranks of enlisted personnel to his chair on the fantail, near the after hatch.

2. During Divine Services moving pictures may be taken. Following Divine Services, still pictures and movie close-ups of the President, the Prime Minister, and their staffs may be taken. At this time, the President prefers not to make any recorded talk for the sound pictures. Instead, he would be delighted to talk informally to those invited to the luncheon, and the end of the luncheon.

3. After the pictures have been taken, the President will inspect the top side in his wheelchair, and I understand ramps will be provided to facilitate this. This inspection will end in the Wardroom, as the President has expressed a desire to meet all the officers of PRINCE OF WALES before luncheon.

4. After luncheon is over, the President will embark in McDOUGAL. The brow will be rigged from the deck of PRINCE OF WALES to the superstructure deck of McDOUGAL. The President will walk across to superstructure deck of McDOUGAL.

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Subject:    Arrangements for President Roosevelt's visit to H.M.S. PRINCE OF WALES
                  for Divine Services and Luncheon, Sunday August 10, 1941.

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5. For your information, the President is never photographed when walking, or in his wheelchair. However, it is perfectly all right to take pictures when he is standing still or sitting in a large chair.

6. If there are any other further suggestions, I would very much appreciate your letting us know.

				      J.R. BEARDALL,
			            Captain, U.S. Navy,
				Naval Aide to the President.
Copy to:   Admiral King
	CO TUSCALOOSA (SOPA)
	CO AUGUSTA
	CO McDOUGAL

 

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