Editorial Note

No official record of the substance of the discussion at this informal meeting appears to have been kept. The meeting is described in Elliott Roosevelt, pp. 66–71. Arnold, pp. 394–395, states that the immediate concern of the meeting was the desire by both Roosevelt and Churchill to make a visit to the front lines. According to Brooke’s diary entry (Alanbrooke, p. 446), the matter of the political organization of French North Africa was discussed. Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years With Eisenhower (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), p. 238, relates that the submarine war in the Atlantic was discussed at length. The reference to the meeting in Hopkins’ notes (Sherwood, p. 674) indicates that the conduct of the war and the French situation were considered. According to the Log, ante, p. 522, the guests stayed late, and the President retired almost three hours after midnight.