Editorial Note
No record of the discussion at this meeting has been found. The fact that there was an evening discussion on December 23 between Roosevelt and Churchill appears from the first paragraph of the minutes of the meeting of the Chiefs of Staff on December 24, 1941. According to this reference (post, p. 82), Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the military subjects that were further explored by the Chiefs of Staff the following morning. An undated memorandum in the Hopkins Papers, listing the functions that Hopkins attended during the First Washington Conference, indicates that Hopkins had dinner on the evening of December 23 with Roosevelt and Churchill.