740.0011 EW 1939/17717½: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
6165. Personal and most secret to the Secretary for Harry Hopkins.
Our friend asked me if the house was large enough to permit him to have with him a secretary and his valet. I told him this would not be difficult. The others will be quartered at the Embassy.1 Security here asked if a detective could be assigned to him. I told them they would not have to worry about that being done. He does not expect to leave the District of Columbia.
Dill is accompanying him and he plans to leave him there as his army contact man. I do not believe you could get a better. Brooke replaced him because Dill was worn out with day work [sic] and night.
- Arnold, p. 274, cites Roosevelt as saying on December 21 that Churchill’s party, in addition to the British Chiefs of Staff, would number about eighty-two officers and clerks.↩