Editorial Note
The following diary entry relating to this meeting is reprinted from Eden, pp. 551–552:
“Alec [Cadogan]3 turned up and we went round together to see Winston. He was with F.D.R. and [Mr. Henry] Morgenthau [United States Secretary of the Treasury] and Prof. [Lord Cherwell, Paymaster-General] in conference about Lend Lease. They seemed glad of interruption and we talked of many things, Russians, Poles, Dumbarton Oaks,4 etc. until time to dress for dinner.”
White, who was not present at the meeting, recorded in an undated memorandum that Morgenthau had mentioned to him on September 15, 1944, “the following bits of conversation which had taken place at a brief meeting with the President” on the afternoon of September 14:
“In the afternoon the President delayed initialing the memorandum on the creation of the lend-lease committee5 which had been drafted by Cherwell, Weeks and White by interrupting with stories. Churchill was nervous and eager to have the memorandum initialed and finally he burst out: ‘What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs and beg like Fala?’” (Treasury Files)
- The brackets in this paragraph appear in the source text.↩
- i.e., the international discussions on postwar world organization which were then under way at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington. See Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. i, pp. 713 ff. For messages from Stalin and Stettinius to Roosevelt at Quebec, with respect to voting in the Security Council of the proposed world organization, see post, pp. 424, 425, 426.↩
- Post, p. 468.↩