Memorandum of Dinner Meeting Between President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill, and Others

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E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Arg 1973 By NLT. He NARS Date 1-17-77 95 SECRET JEDURITY DISORMATION # 6 (Jan.5) January 6, 1952. MEMORANDUM OF DINNER MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND PRIME MINISTER 1952 CHURCHILL ON S.S. WILLIAMSBURG, JANUARY 5, Present at the Meeting The President Secretary of State Prime Minister Secretary of Defense Mr. Eden Secretary of Treasury Ambassador Franks Ambassador Gifford Lord Ismay Mr. Harriman Lord Cherwell General Bradley phere be was excellent. Its general effect on Mr. Churchill This meeting was most successful. The atmos- other the close of the evening to the President; made toward can gathered from two remarks; one which he ship. was made to me in private as he was leaving the the American in his career as Prime Minister with his attended to the President that of all the meetings which he said had At the table at the end of the evening he he colleagues he had never attended one in which and thought the atmosphere was so conducive to close upon that the Milliamsburg. To me he said, "Did feel one cordial relations between two countries as the the around that table this evening there was you gathered mind you -- but to save it?" governants of the world -- not to dominate it, and discussions before dinner; the discussion at dinner; The evening fell into four main parts: the two separate discussions after dinner. ous set groups the sitting around the aft saloon. At the out- Before dinner, the discussions fell into vari- a model book of the Mayflower made from the original wood, Prime Minister presented the President with a describing the history of the model, and presented the Prime Minister with a set of photographs copy of Mr. Churchill's latest volume. The President a one of each type, from the Williamsburg, bearing the of the Potsdam Conference and with a set of glasses, Presidential seal. SECRET SEGURITY INFORMATION