PERSONAL CONTACT
THE FIRST OCCASION
PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEADERS
WASHINGTON, August 15. Photographs of the President and the Prime Minister issued showed them aboard the battleship Prince of Wales. One picture showed Mr. Churcnill and Mr. Roosevelt with senior British and American military and naval chiefs aboard the American cruiser Augusta. The photograph portraying the President and Mi-. Churchill aboard the Prince of Wales bore the caption, "Taken after church services." It was dated August 10. ' Though Mi\ Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt had never met before, they were accustomed to call each other "Winston" and "Franklin" over thie Atlantic telephone. Mr. Churchill took not only a plentiful supply of cigars, but also a number of British films to meet Mr. Roosevelt's passion for the cinema.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 9
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124PERSONAL CONTACT Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 9
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