Memorandum of Dinner Meeting Between President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill, and Others
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OCR Page 1 of 11E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Arg 1973
By NLT. He NARS Date 1-17-77
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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.
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