Meeting of the Pacific War Council, 12:30 p.m.
| Present | ||
| United States | United Kingdom | Canada |
| President Roosevelt | Prime Minister Churchill | Prime Minister Mackenzie King1 |
| Mr. Hopkins | Ambassador Halifax | Minister McCarthy |
| China | Australia | New Zealand |
| Foreign Minister Soong | Minister Dixon | Minister Nash |
| Netherlands | Philippine Commonwealth | |
| Foreign Minister van Kleffens | President Quezon |
- According to Pickersgill (p. 414), Roosevelt, speaking for himself and Churchill, invited Prime Minister Mackenzie King on June 23, 1942, to come to Washington for a meeting of the Pacific War Council. Although no exchange of correspondence between Roosevelt and Mackenzie King relative to this invitation has been found, the Roosevelt Papers include a White House memorandum of June 23, 1942, which states that Roosevelt bad convened a meeting of the Pacific War Council for June 25, at which Prime Minister Mackenzie King would be present. According to a Department of State memorandum of June 26, 1942, regarding the Prime Minister’s visit, not printed, the Prime Minister arrived in Washington by train at 6:55 a.m. and drove to the White House at about 11 a.m. He left the White House at 2:45 p.m. After a brief stay at the Canadian Legation, the Prime Minister departed from Washington by train at 4:50 p.m. (033.4211 King, W. L. Mackenzie/60)↩